Secure coding recommendations
Because antivirus software is a product that is by definition providing some level of security to endpoints, writing secure code is essential. We can learn from history that there are plenty of security vulnerabilities out there that can be used by malicious threat actors in the wild, which is why antivirus software vendors must put in their best effort to make their antivirus software more secure, plan their code securely, implement best practices, and always follow industry guidelines and recommendations.
Here are our secure code development recommendations to help improve your overall antivirus software security.
Self-protection mechanism
The most basic recommendation for any antivirus software vendor is to ensure that you have applied a self-protection mechanism to your own product.
Most antivirus software applies some level of self-protection to make it difficult for security researchers or threat actors to exploit vulnerabilities in the...