Preventing of the Security Issues

July 31, 2012 - PRLog -- First of all a team of software testing company should check the suggested design of the application and architecture to identify possible security issues. The security troubles which cannot be removed through design should be tested by software testing company as soon as code is written. More complex systems are more likely to have security bugs.

Coordination is obligatory in the process of web site testing or software testing and testing of architecture during different stages of its development.

The first steps have to be made by the project designers. They need to be aware of security laws and ensure that the software will satisfy these requirements. They are able to prevent some security issues in their designs before the team members of a software testing company find them. Their role is to ensure that the system architecture is able to be secured. The designers have to conduct a research on how much information should be collected on users, if it should be encoded, and how it can be secured. They have to identify the techniques which shouldn’t be incorporated because of their known potential for insecurity. While designs are still on paper, a software testing company has to identify obscurities which can possibly cause bugs during the implementation.

Then developers have to ensure that their code is secure using the best practices when writing code. The most common mistakes here are: marshalling data from an untrusted part of the application to a trusted part without verification; marshalling data from managed to unmanaged code; fully trusted code referring to partially trusted code or code marked as no trust.

Many tools exist to check whether the code corresponds to the main laws of security. Many of these tools are available only for native code (C or C++) and not for managed code, but since managed code can be written with unsafe functions, it is also susceptible.

Developers may also practice checking each other’s code before it is checked in. Such approach can prevent security troubles.

Moreover, people responsible for actual creating of each build can increase the warning level on the build tools in order to detect potential problems.

Software testing company is the last one in the process of locking down secure code. Software testing company may not have been directly responsible for any of the stages to this point, but it can always guide the current processes to the better results. Software testing company becomes directly responsible on the latter stages of security testing.