RE: Development team building

[Andrew Lee-Thorp <aleethorp () hotmail com>]

Here's a reference for the Microsoft approach - it mainly tackles the issue of incorporating security into the software 
dev lifecycle, but it may also give some ideas or pointer on how to structure your team.

The Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle 


Steve Lipner

Michael Howard

Security Engineering and Communications

Security Business and Technology Unit

Microsoft Corporation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995349.aspx

Andrew 

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> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:18:53 -0300
> Subject: Development team building
> From: cryptogrid () gmail com
> To: bs7799 () securityfocus com; security-basics () securityfocus com
>
> Hello all, I'd want to know if anyone has any recommendation or
> book/article reference about roles conflicts from information security
> point of view and any other security related consideration in the
> construction of a new development team for a critical application.
> Roughly, team roles would be:
>
> PM
> Leader
> Analysts
> Architects
> Developers
> Testers
>
> I'm aware of the traditional conflicts of interest between roles, like
> for example, a developer shoudn't participate in the project as tester
> testing his own code, but I'm interested on information security
> considerations. For example, How to avoid intentional security
> problems in the design of the application or in the analysis phase?
>
> Regards,
> Cris,
>
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