Designing and Developing Secure Azure Solutions

Chapter 1

Secure development lifecycle processes

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Understand some of the processes required to build more secure software.

• Grow a security culture within your organization.

• Explain the purpose of different types of environments for development work to production and how they require nuanced security controls.

Developers are the number-one source of compromises

The number-one source of compromises isn’t hackers, attackers, or other nefarious actors. Rather, the number-one source of compromises is us—the software development community. Indeed, according to a 2020 analysis by Contrast Security, almost 50 percent of all compromises are due to vulnerabilities within applications—vulnerabilities ...