The nonprofit Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code, a.k.a. SAFECode, today published a best practices guide for the software community based on techniques and processes used by its high-profile membership.
The new "Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development: A Guide to the Most Effective Secure Development Practices in Use Today" details secure development best practices used by members Adobe, EMC, Juniper, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP, and Symantec. This is the second edition of the report, which the nonprofit first published in 2008.

"The scope of this paper is focused on design, development, and testing. The big difference between what we have here now and what we had done before is that we have the benefit of more than two years of experience working together and understanding best practices," says Paul Kurtz, executive director of SAFECode. While the report isn't meant to be a comprehensive guide, it does contain much more detail than the first edition, according to Kurtz.

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