What Is Security by Design (SbD)?
Security by design, or SbD, is a new industry term for a range of security practices built on one fundamental idea—that should make security should make security into a product by design instead of being added later by third-party products and services. You might be wondering what this means. Well, it can mean anything from designing your products with security in mind from the beginning to designing in ways that make them more secure once released into the wild. It could include using open-source code to ensure you aren't vulnerable to bugs in that code, ensuring your product isn't susceptible to phishing attacks and using encryption throughout the product's lifecycle to protect sensitive data. How do you know if your company is doing this? One good way is by asking yourself these questions: Are we using open-source code? Do we have policies in place to help prevent phishing attacks? Do we regularly audit our systems for vulnerabilities? If the answer is yes, then you're probably pretty secure! There's a reason why we say "Secure by Design."We want to help you build security from the ground up so that it is a part of your product or service. You can't just bolt on security later—it won't work. You'll end up with a Frankenstein-like product with pieces of security run-on and other parts that don't even acknowledge its existence. Then what happens? It would help if you patched holes and repaired weaknesses, which always costs time and money and often involves taking the whole thing down for a while. If you're secure by design, you're building those walls into your product at the beginning, ensuring that all those holes are patched before it even gets started using it! No one can tell there's anything wrong with your product because it was designed to be secure.
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