Arvinder Saini is a senior security consultant at Synopsys. He has 4+ years of experience performing architecture security reviews and penetration testing thick client, web, and mobile applications. He also delivers threat modeling training to Synopsys clients. Arvinder holds a Master's in Information Security from Georgia Institute of Technology.
With a wide array of security testing solutions, let’s examine how different types of software testing can help organizations achieve security goals. When do I need security testing? Software security testing is a type of security testing that aims to reveal loopholes and weaknesses in the security mechanism of applications and systems. When these weaknesses are exploited, the results could include:
Posted in Application Security
The cost of fixing a bug or defect is lower if you catch it in the design phase, but higher in later phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
Posted in Managing security risks