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Step 1: Business Requirement and Functional content Business requirements are the critical activities of an enterprise that must be performed to meet the organizational objective(s) while remaining solution independent. Functional requirements are very detailed and provide information on how business needs and goals will be delivered through a specific project. Below are the steps in this phase: • Design Risk Analysis • User Risk Analysis • Architecture Risk analysis Step 2: I. Identification of entry and exit points Identifying entry points and exit points to see where a potential attacker could interact with the application, identifying assets i.e. items/areas that the attacker would be interested in, and identifying trust levels which represent the access rights that the application will grant to external entities.

II. Transactional Analysis It consists of the analysis of applications function to assert the presence of security controls that protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability of this functions. Below are the steps in this phase: • Static code Analysis • Manual Review • Coding standards

Step 3: Issue Identification and Risk rating The first step is to identify a security risk that needs to be rated. The tester needs to gather information about the threat agent involved, the attack that will be used, vulnerability involved in the code, and the impact of a successful exploit on the business. There may be multiple possible groups of attackers, or even multiple possible business impacts. In general, it’s best to err on the side of caution by using the worst-case option, as that will result in the highest overall risk. Risk rating is calculating an overall severity for the risk. This is done by figuring out whether the likelihood is low, medium, or high and then do the same for impact. Below is the phase involved i.e. Security Metrics Step 4: Identification of potential solution Identifying the solution to fix the vulnerabilities. Based on Industry leading practices tester should give remediation for the vulnerabilities. Step 5: Executive summary and detailed report An executive summary that provides a high-level view of vulnerabilities detected and even provides a security “score,” and a more detailed report that pinpoints which line of code looks troublesome and the vulnerability that was detected.

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The main work of Static Code Analysis Tools is to analyze an application’s compiled code or source code analysis so that one can easily identify the vulnerabilities without even executing the program.The availability of code that can compile is a basic requirement for most Static Code Analysis Tools.However, there are several other tools that only look at the source code to identify vulnerabilities and also some tools that require the source code to compile in order to build call graphs. These graphs help identify sources of data and data sink.

ADVANTAGES OF THE USE OF SAST TOOL?

Developers dramatically outnumber security staff. The Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) reports that the average ratio of software security group (SSG) members to developers is 1:75. As such, it can be challenging to find the resources to perform code reviews on even a fraction of an organization’s portfolio, let alone provide remediation guidance to the development team. A key strength of Static Code Analysis tools is the ability to analyze 100% of your code base. Additionally, they are much faster than manual secure code reviews performed by humans. These tools scan millions of lines of code within a matter of minutes. For example, WebGoat can scan 50,000 lines of code in 2-3 minutes. Static Code Analysis Tools also encapsulate security knowledge into your developers’ desktops and even act as a self-training tool for developers to learn from common mistakes. Most importantly, they encode remediation proposals that recommend strategies to fix each issue.