Understanding insecure design

Insecure design focuses on understanding how security risks increase when a web application is not designed, tested, and implemented properly on a system. When designing a web application, the organization usually ensures the code passes through each phase of a Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL), which helps developers to thoroughly test the application to ensure there are as few security risks as possible.

This technique ensures the web application is designed using secure coding practices and design, secure library components of programming languages, and even threat modeling to help understand how threat actors may be able to component the web application. Without secure designs, the security posture of the web application is left very vulnerable to various types of web application attacks. Overall, it is important that developers and organizations implement proper development, security testing, and maintenance on their web applications and servers...