The current state of security -- Insights from the German software industry

These days, software development and security go hand in hand. Numerous techniques and strategies are discussed in the literature that can be applied to guarantee the incorporation of security into the software development process. In this paper the main ideas of secure software development that have been discussed in the literature are outlined. Next, a dataset on implementation in practice is gathered through a qualitative interview research involving 20 companies. Trends and correlations in this dataset are found and contrasted …

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