Security News > 2023 > July > Inspiring secure coding: Strategies to encourage developers’ continuous improvement
He sheds light on the significance of positive security culture, the reasons behind recurrent vulnerabilities, strategies for incorporating secure coding training without hampering development processes, the effectiveness of gamified learning experiences, the need for the regular refreshment of secure development training, and innovative methods to encourage developers to improve their secure coding techniques.
How important is fostering a security culture within development teams for secure coding practices?
Resentment can be strong between both teams, but fostering a positive security culture where developers understand the role they can play in driving down code-level vulnerabilities, as well as creating an environment where they can learn secure coding in a way that is comfortable for them, is paramount in repairing that relationship.
As an industry, to date, we have let developers down by not providing viable secure coding education in the workforce or at the tertiary level; they need right-fit tools and learning pathways that allow them to build the skills needed to correct those risky behaviors and code with security front of mind.
Given the importance of secure coding, what innovative methods or strategies can be employed to continually encourage developers to improve their secure coding techniques?
They often make secure coding part of development KPIs, but by the same token, incentivize continuous education and passing assessments.