Processes for producing secure software

Summarizes work initiated at the National Cybersecurity Summit, held 2-3 December 2003 in Santa Clara, California. Attendees representing industry, academia, and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) formed five task forces to focus on specific topic areas. This report describes, the key problems and recommendations identified by the Software Process subgroup of the "Security Across the Software Development Lifecycle" task force. Producing secure software is a multifaceted problem of software engineering, security engineering, and management. Thus, producing secure software starts with outstanding software engineering practices, augmented with sound technical practices, and supported by management practices that promote secure software development. We discuss these practices.