Insights from experts shaping secure development

Micha Martinez es analista de ciberseguridad y director de fotografía en Nelnet. Cuando se le encomendó la tarea de crear un programa de formación para desarrolladores en torno a la codificación segura, adoptó formas creativas de involucrar a su equipo. Quedamos tan impresionados con la forma en que dirige su programa de formación sobre código seguro que nos reunimos con él para obtener más información.

Los ataques por inyección, el infame rey de las vulnerabilidades (por categoría), han perdido el primer puesto ante la interrupción del control de acceso como lo peor de lo peor, y los desarrolladores deben tomar nota.

Los desarrolladores se encuentran entre los que conocen más de cerca el código, además de las configuraciones de seguridad y el control de acceso. Hay que fomentar sus habilidades en materia de seguridad y, para alcanzar los altos estándares descritos por el NIST, una estructura de cursos prácticos podría ser la forma más eficaz de abordarla, especialmente en el caso de grupos de desarrolladores grandes.

Kamer van Koophandel shares how it embedded secure coding into everyday development through role-based certifications, Trust Score benchmarking, and a culture of shared security ownership.

See how Paysafe's partnership with Secure Code Warrior led to a 45% boost in developer productivity and a major reduction in code vulnerabilities.

DigitalOcean's use of Secure Code Warrior training has significantly reduced security debt, allowing teams to focus more on innovation and productivity. The improved security has strengthened their product quality and competitive edge. Looking ahead, the SCW Trust Score will help them further enhance security practices and continue driving innovation.

We’ve established that developers are an integral—yet frequently underutilised—part of reaching a state of software security excellence. This is especially relevant to more than just PCI DSS compliance. It is crucial that developers understand the broader picture of PCI DSS 4.0 - even if they are not subject to it - in terms of what they can control and integrate as part of their default approach to a software build.

Teams that implement agile learning in secure code, along with safe deployment of AI assistive tooling enjoy the benefit of hands-on experience with the tools while achieving security at speed. This has been notoriously difficult to achieve, especially if developers have little experience with security awareness and training. The “just-in-time” approach directly ties into what developers are doing on a day-to-day basis, with context that allows them to anticipate and solve relevant vulnerability problems that have been created by AI.

Recent evolutions in developer security education have enhanced the ability for enterprises to benchmark their cohorts' security abilities, ultimately designing programs to ensure they operate with security as second nature. This can result in meaningful risk mitigation and favorable comparisons against others in their industry as a whole.

See how 16 leading AI models actually code, scored across 11 real-world frameworks and 1,760 codebases — the framework matters as much as the model.

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