Secure Development Tools
The selection of tools used in development is important for ensuring a secure product. Nothing is more insidious than trying to build secure software systems only to have the tools you are using insert secret backdoors into the code, allow universal access to your proprietary code, or allow a developer to overwrite and lose key code. The concept of secure tools requires that tools used in development need to be reviewed carefully to ensure that using the tool doesn’t insert new vulnerabilities into the development process. These vulnerabilities may be intentional or unintentional and may appear either in the product developed or in the process of developing the product.
While tools are always designed to help in some ...
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