Secure and Resilient Software Development

Running head: SECURITY AND RESILIENCY SOFTWARE
Secure and Resilient Software Development
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................2
BSIMM........................................................................................................................................2
Open SAMM...............................................................................................................................3
Adoption of Open SAMM helping to improve organization’s overall security posture:............3
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................4
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Introduction:
While developing any software product, maintaining its development process is one of
the important aspects in software development. Thus while completing in the marketplace; it is
essential to use some kind of software security model that will help the developers in assessing
the effectiveness of the capabilities of the software developed by improving its performance
further (Nazareth & Choi, 2015). This report discusses about the two types of major security
models consisting of the BSIMM and Open SAMM model and their respective role in providing
a secure software maturity model. The report will also discuss about the adoption of Open
SAMM security model in order to improve the overall security posture of organizations towards
development of secure and resilient software.
Discussion:
In today’s world, development of agile principles for software development has become
very much popular. In order to develop secured software, it is essential to adopt software security
activity models like the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) and the Software
Assurance Maturity Model (Open SAMM).
BSIMM
BSIMM is one of the prevailing software safety ingenuities that helps in enumerating the
practices of altered administrations by a unique data driven approach. The best possible way to
use the BSIMM software security model is by contrasting the initiatives with that of the data of
other organizations (Merkow & Raghavan, 2010). The software security framework of BSIMM
consists of four domains such as governance, intelligence, SSDL touch points and Deployments.