Rejecting the "Trojan Horse": active application security requires four elements

After successful exploitation of the vulnerability, the security events caused by cross-site scripting and SQL injection are no longer new things. To prevent such attacks, is the security team still ready to "make up for nothing?
Efficient security projects and teams should not only provide reactive measures, but also actively cooperate with internal information teams to build a "preemptive" software security. Effective security items of information systems and software code often rely on two types of automatic security tests: static security scan testing and dynamic security scan testing.
Static scanning is generally performed during code development. This process uses Threat modeling and analysis to scan static code to detect security vulnerabilities. Dynamic scan is used to scan the actual code in the work environment. It finds vulnerabilities during code running. There is also the third type of testing, namely manual penetration testing, which mainly performs human intervention through White Hat analysis. Real and effective application security projects use all security scan tests, in which static and dynamic security scans must go deep into the application development process and use manual penetration tests when necessary.
Effective Automatic code scanning policies must be seamlessly integrated with the IT development team. The key success factor for a truly effective automatic security project is that IT development teams are required to do the least extra work. Code scanning outside the application development cycle takes up development time and is considered an additional undesirable task.
When enterprises successfully use security code to scan projects, the main obstacles they face are:
Manual Scan
Code scanning that requires manual upload of code through APIS or Web portals requires additional development time and work. Sometimes, special compilation instructions are required, and a specific software version is required for scanning and running.
Manual Process
For code scanning outside the development cycle, you need to create a scan schedule and a scan duration. Enterprises need dedicated resources to manage projects, Set reminders, and complete scanning according to the specified date.
Code Scope
No one can test what they don't know. Testing outside the development cycle requires the developer to upload code, and it relies on the developer to upload the correct code for static code scanning. It is almost impossible for teams that maintain program security to verify that all libraries and codes are correctly uploaded.
Static code scanning and dynamic code scanning projects of truly effective applications have four main elements:
1Local Scanning
The local scanning project linked to the source control system now does not require developers to spend time finding code, specially compiling and uploading code. On the contrary, the correct position of the Code is selected in the source control tree, and regular scanning can be performed for all sub-files. The local dynamic scan solution also makes dynamic scanning easier, because security experts do not need to change firewall rules for scanning and testing suppliers' external tools to access the testing website.
2Continuous Scanning
You can configure a local system for continuous scanning, which does not require manual intervention or code upload. You can also configure the local system for more frequent scanning.
3, Closely integrated with the development cycle
Highly integrated scanning projects with source control and construction systems allow code scanning to take full advantage of the features of many source control and construction systems. For example, before a developer's program version is integrated with the main code library, the advanced development team can configure and build a system to pass certain test entries. We can set a security scan test for the code to make it a test entry similar to a performance test or a unit test.
4Closely integrated with the defect Tracking System
Modern source control and construction systems should also be closely integrated with defect tracking systems. Only in this way can Software defects be associated with specific code versions. If a code scan project can automatically create defects in the current defect management system, it can be saved and seamlessly integrated into the team's defect library.
Effective active security requires that code scanning affect the application development process as smoothly as possible. The more security scanning is running like the current development process, the easier it is for the development team to use security scanning continuously.