6 Steps to Build & Scale a Risk-Based AppSec Program

An Application Security or Application Risk Program is not a set of technologies. It is a collection of people, processes, and technologies that are seamlessly intertwined and work together in order to reduce risk, lower costs, and deliver faster. For many years, AppSec programs have focused on vulnerabilities, from SQL Injection to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), but a modern understanding of application and infrastructure security is riskbased and focused on business impact.

Ask 50 CISOs or Application Security Engineers what an AppSec program should look like and you’ll get 50 different answers. Every organization has unique needs to define how Security is integrated into their Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), often called the Secure SDLC (SSDLC) or the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL).