Introduction
Toady's,almost all systems are connected and security aspect of the application is more important than the past.According to Gartner trend of attacks changed from networks and infrastructures to applications.For developing secure application, we need to change our thinking approach about security. We must create awareness in our development team (or in our organization), train team members in security concerns, tailor security in development life cycle, model threats, review application parts to find out security vulnerabilities, use experts for doing penetration tests, provide an infrastructure to delivering security patch to users as soon as possible and so on.
By using proper tools for developing and deploying secure application, we ensure that modeling, reviewing, and analyzing of security aspects of the application is more structural, accurate and fast.But which types of security tools we need ?
Sample Scenario
Suppose you are developing a software application that will be deployed on a server. The following shape depicts the scenario:
Types of Security Tools
The followings are types of security tools that a developer needs to model,develop and deploy software solutions :
- Development Tools
- Threat Modeling Tools
- Security Guidelines Analyzer Tools
- Vulnerability Code Analyzer Tools
- Deployment Tools
- Signing Tools
- Obfuscator Tools
- Configuration Analyzer Tools
- Secure Auto-Update Tools
- Application Firewall Tools
- Penetration Tools
- Resource Enumerator Tools
- Vulnerability Scanner Tools
Security Tools Usage in Sample Scenario
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