Frontiers for AppSec

Abstract

The stakes for software development teams are already rather high and getting higher. This chapter aims to present a potpourri of new technologies and new ways software is being packaged, deployed, and used across the world. It provides best practices for different classes of technology that lead to “Building Security In”, and evaluates organizational standards for implementing security controls in new technology. The Internet of Things Security Foundation is a non-profit organization that has been dedicated to driving security excellence since 2014. Blockchain, as a distributed ledger technology that makes Bitcoin and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies possible, is touted as a tremendous advance in computer security. Web application firewalls are a control mechanism that operates in front of the Web server load balancer. Technopedia describes big data as a process that is used when traditional data mining and handling techniques cannot uncover the insights and meaning of the underlying data.