The first rule of a truly robust AppSec program is to have a very clear understanding of what your attack surface looks like. You need to know what you have to protect in order to actually protect it: you can't protect what you don't know.
The Consortium for Information and Software Quality estimates that the cost of poor software quality in the United States reached $2.41 trillion in 2022. That’s nearly 10% of the current GDP within the US. As we will show, it makes sense that the cost of poor software quality is so high. It’s also completely avoidable, and software flaws must be avoided with the world’s increased dependency on software.
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to embracing the development of Single-Page Apps is security testing. SPA security testing can’t just be about crawling the frontend URLs and using spiders like in traditional security testing. So how can you make sure you're properly testing your SPAs?
There will always be a natural tension between cybersecurity teams and developers. After all, it's the developer's role to "develop." They want and are paid to create and ship new applications and features that help move the organization forward. It's the role of security, however, to make sure bad things don't happen when new software is deployed, such as suffering from a data breach or the loss of availability of business services due to vulnerable software.
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