Make Penetration Testing part of your SDLC

Pen Tests should be part of your SDLC. Not only does it help in finding bugs early on in the software development life cycle, it also helps in reducing cost of fixing bugs and vulns later in the software release cycle.

Why Should You Make Penetration Testing a Part of the SDLC? (Original article from https://www.stickman.com.au/why-penetration-testing-must-be-part-software-development-lifecycle/)

Making penetration testing an integral part of your software development lifecycle ensures that the end product turns out to be safe and secure for your customers. What normally happens is that a product is first developed and then at the end, a security assessment is conducted to check for vulnerabilities. The issues are usually fixed with a patching software, but this turns out to be much more costly than addressing the real issue.

If issues are fixed during the software development process, much of the costs can be reduced by avoiding multiple cycles of testing–patching–retesting the software at the end. Ever since the threat landscape has changed, organisations are now looking forward to providing more secure applications that are able to sustain their profitability and attractiveness for the customer.

As information security is getting more fragile at the hands of malicious attackers found everywhere on the internet, measures to counter such attacks also need to be improved. Malicious hackers look for all the routes to enter into the network and one of these routes is the application host. Hence, the applications hosted by your organisation must not be vulnerable, or else information can be easily compromised. Employing a team of penetration testers during the SDLC phase helps avoid the costs that may result otherwise from breaches of data.