As outlined in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA’s) Secure by Design initiative, software manufacturers should ensure that security is a core consideration from the onset of software development and throughout the entirety of the development lifecycle.
This voluntary guidance provides an overview of product security bad practices that are considered exceptionally risky, particularly for software manufacturers who produce software used in service of critical infrastructure or national critical functions (NCFs). This guidance also provides recommendations for software manufacturers to mitigate these risks.
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Source: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber Division
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