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ISC2 CISSP 2024 outline · Domain 8: Software development security

Assessing effectiveness of software security: auditing, logging, risk analysis

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Deploying security tools and writing secure coding policies does not prove software is secure. Organizations need ways to assess whether their software security efforts are actually working, both for individual applications and for the development program as a whole. Three tools for this are auditing, logging and risk analysis, tied together by metrics that show trends over time and feed improvements back into the process.

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