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Whitepapers and articles about security requirements

  • 5 Steps to Starting a Software Security Requirements Program

    Five simple steps to get you started on building a software security requirements program.

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    Whitepaper

    Security requirements are different. With a good security requirement system, you can determine the relevant threat to your applications in 15 minutes.

  • Automated Scaling of Security Requirements

    This whitepaper outlines common challenges with security requirements, and a process for effectively automating and scaling security and other non-functional requirements.

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    Learn how we built a scalable security requirements process to accurately predict over 97% of high risk vulnerabilities in penetration tests.

  • What are Security Requirements?

    This short article describes security requirements, including differentiating continuous and one-time requirements. The article also describes attributes of a good security requirement.

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    Explicitly stating security requirements during project inception is the perfect complement to security testing.

  • What is Security Testing?

    This short article discusses common methods for verifying security software, including code review and run-time assessments. The article describes the various techniques and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

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    Application security testing generally refers to testing custom or lesser-known commercial software applications for security vulnerabilities.