Secure by Design
Secure by Design is an approach where security requirements are treated as functional requirements decided at architecture time, rather than a checklist applied in a review before launch.
Secure by Design is a software development approach where security requirements are treated as functional requirements decided at architecture time — access control models, data classification, and threat modeling — rather than as a checklist applied in a final review before launch.
How It Works
Instead of a security team auditing a finished application before release, Secure by Design builds security decisions into the same points where performance, scalability, and cost decisions get made: threat modeling during technical design review, data sensitivity classification during data modeling, and dependency and infrastructure choices evaluated for supply chain exposure before they're locked into the architecture. The goal is catching design-level security problems while they're still a design conversation, not after they're already shipped code.
| Factor | Secure by Design | Pre-Launch Security Audit |
|---|---|---|
| When security decisions are made | Architecture/design phase | Before launch, after build |
| Cost of fixing a finding | Low (design change) | High (rework/rebuild) |
| Covers | Access control, data model, dependencies | Whatever the audit scope catches |
Dbugger Enterprise Context
Dbugger's development lifecycle builds threat modeling and access control design into technical design review from day one, keeping applications OWASP-secure by default rather than retrofitted before launch.
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