It’s high time we realize that delivering security in our Software products/applications is one of our prime duties in order to achieve Client satisfaction. Unless we inject security into the software and make it immune to malicious activities, hackers will keep on playing “Hide-and-Seek”.

As it is observed from today’s security vulnerabilities, most of the Security threats pop-up either due to improper coding practices or due to misconfiguration of software/hardware. Most of the work is done, if not all, if we start “binding” our software with security as early as possible. This paper focuses on Involving Security early in SDLC which can lead to a healthier software and hence a happier business customer.

Not all organizations think of affording time and money towards security testing due to tight schedules and shrinkingbudgets, but if one manages to do so, it’s a “win-win” situation for both organization and customer; organization need not invest much of its time on fixing security issues even after the product is in market and customers need not compromise on security of their valuable assets.

Roopa Jaganoor works as a QA Engineer at IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. She has five years of experience in Software Testing. Out of her five years of career in Software Industry, from past three years she has been working as a
QA Engineer in XForce®, IBM Internet Security Systems R&D account, where she is involved in Security Research and Vulnerability Assessment.

Roopa has graduated from Visvesvaraya Technological University with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science. She is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH®) and holds ISTQB® and IBM AIX® Certifications.