Software Security and Privacy Report: Key Issues and Solutions

This report delves into critical aspects of software security, focusing on encryption, confidentiality, and privacy. It examines the secure exchange of encryption keys within the TLS protocol and addresses issues related to maintaining confidential information, such as the lack of common security standards and the challenges in establishing international privacy standards. The report also highlights the complexities of anonymizing data and the implications of data protection legislation. Furthermore, it explores the importance of authentication, authorization, system infrastructure management, attack monitoring, and backup policies to ensure robust security. The report provides a comprehensive overview of threats and mitigation strategies, offering valuable insights for software developers seeking to enhance the security and privacy of their products.

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Introduction
Threats continue to evolve and even become more sophisticated, thus software
developers must remain vigilant when developing software products. This monogram will
highlight some of the aspects related to software security.
How the encryption key is securely exchanged in the TLS protocol
The encryption key is securely exchanged in the TLS protocol through a secure
connection known as TLS handshake. It is through the handshake where authentication takes
place and where the encryption keys are established. During the TLS handshake, the client and
the server exchange important information that is used to determine connection properties (Lake,
2019).
Issues with maintaining confidential information
Some of the issues with maintaining confidentiality are lack of common security
standards, and lack of involvement of all information security professionals when developing
codes of practice when dealing with confidential information. Change management can assist in
dealing with two issues by re-aligning organizing processes which deal with confidentiality
Difficulties in establishing a set of privacy standards
Lack of common regulations is one of the major issues when establishing a set of privacy
standards that can be applied internationally on software products. Different regions have
different regulatory standards. Example EU countries require software developers to deal with

customers. In the US the software team are required to appoint one officer to deal with privacy
concern
Issues related to keeping data anonymous
Information transfer can be considered to be illegal according to data protection
legislation due to the issues that surround anonymous data. The issues are lack of well-laid
procedure on how to anonymize data. Also, it is unlikely that the Chinese company will in a
position to successfully disguise the identity of image data (Schneidewind, 2011).
Conclusion
In terms of security, a lot of aspects have to be considered. As discussed in this paper, are
the issues surrounding confidentiality, anonymous data, and privacy standards.

References
Lake, J. (2019, February 25th). What is TLS and how does it work? Retrieved from
CompariTech: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/tls-encryption/
Schneidewind, N. (2011). Systems and software engineering with applications. New York:
Springer Press.