Application security acts as a counter measures for threats coming from different types such as viruses, trojan, worms, ransomwares to the system. It protects the data from being stolen, it may perform on both hardware and software level where we can set rules to the software, for ex: A firewall acts a application security for allowing valid activities to be performed with the internet.

In the field of software development lifecycle(SDLC), Application security should be started at early stages to ensure be aware of security risks and should always utilize application security in the software development lifecycle and the application can be aware of future threats. From a organization perspective often many business end users are not aware of these security risks and when the application is being built, we need to make sure that enough protocols and security tasks has been set on each layers in an application.

As the technology is advancing the need of application security is very important to secure and protect the data from many threats from the internet. Today most of the companies are moving towards advancing their application security to a multi-stage level authentication to make sure they are being validating the users, there are many companies which provide a best layer of security for data management, project management etc. One of the instances of shifting their focus on application and organization security, Microsoft started shifting its focus on security aspects based on their recent threat landscapes which made them have counter measures for their application security.

As the large businesses shift to building secure models for application security by spending enough time on planning, meetings to make sure all the policies are validated. if we compare with small businesses, they usually have straight forward plans with a set of guidelines on how to deal with the data, perform validation and protect it by identify how the data is flowing and its usages by different users.

References:

1. Application Security. VMware.

https://www.vmware.com/topics/glossary/content/app…

2. Dharmesh M Mehta (2009, Oct 06). Application security should be addressed in initial SDLC stages

https://www.computerweekly.com/tip/Application-sec…

3. Federal Communications Commission, Cyber Security Planning Guide

https://transition.fcc.gov/cyber/cyberplanner.pdf

4. Jeffery Schwartz (2016, Jan 05) Microsoft’s New Security Approach.

https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2016/01/01/A-New-S…