Rapid innovation is the lifeblood of many companies in the digital age. If your organization employs a CI/CD workflow, you need an effective application risk management strategy to secure your SLDC pipeline and DevOps processes. And one of the most critical aspects of that strategy is a well-defined risk assessment strategy. But what does that actually mean?
In this blog we’ll discuss how to perform effective application security risk assessments that allow you to maintain an innovative and rapid application development strategy, without sacrificing risk management best practices or introducing unnecessary technical risk.
What is an application risk assessment?
An application risk assessment evaluates the security risks associated with a specific application or set of applications in order to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats, and to better understand their potential impact, answering a series of questions like these. These are threats that could be used to compromise the security of your applications and the data they handle. The output of the assessment is usually a report that can be used to inform the development of a risk management plan or used to…
