A Compressive Guide to Enterprise Security Software Development

Security is a basic human necessity. Everyone wants to be secure physically, emotionally, socially and financially. A short definition of security means being in the state where you are free from danger or threat. As more and more people started adopting technology in the early 80s, the rise of malware was begun.

Slowly threat became diverse in terms of their origin, the harm which they can cause and their ways of working. Spyware, Hacking, Phishing, Trojans and several other security threats have been affecting lots of software and information systems. As per OWASP few of the main security threats or loopholes are:

Injection
Session Management & Broken Authentication
Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Insecure Direct Object References
Security Misconfiguration
Sensitive Data Exposure
Missing Function Level Access Control
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Using third-party components (unknown reliability)
Unvalidated redirects and forwards

Some of the examples of corporations having significant financial loss are: Sony’s PlayStation networking being shut down due to hacking resulted in the loss of $171m USD back in 2011. Citi bank’s group was hacked in 2011, leading to exposure of 200,000 client information and a loss of $2.7m USD. MyDoom often called as the most expensive globally virus of all time resulted in an overall loss of $38 billion.

A recent survey conveys over 90% of companies encountered “external” security incidents. As per the research work from McAfee, annually global businesses are losing almost $400 billion due to cyber crimes. Based on the current scenarios many security companies and startups are coming up with niche software which will be solving a specific problem based on the type, domain, and technology. The demand for enterprise security software development is rising every day.

Some interesting security software-based companies are:

CyActive: Specializes in predictive malware evolution and providing security against it.
SymTurk: Providing completely managed security services and security products
SecBi: It stands for Security Business Intelligence. It is an adaptive investigation platform that combines advanced machine learning capabilities, cyber security expertise, and user feedback.

At CMARIX, we have been working with startups and security software providers to build a custom SaaS-based App as per their client’s business needs. We have been actively working with Microsoft technologies like ASP.Net MVC to implement custom product which works with third-party hardware like Camera, Fire Alarm, motion sensors and so on. Such products have been implemented in public places as well as schools and hospitals.

Few of the many concepts implemented by CMARIX include: