ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
During a technical review at the end of the coding phase, a security engineer checks each software module against the documented interface definitions, data‐handling rules, and approved secure-coding guidelines to confirm that the implementation satisfies all specified design and security requirements before integration testing begins. Which secure-software activity is the engineer performing?
Security verification of the implementation against design and coding specifications
Security validation to demonstrate the system meets end-user needs
Threat modeling to identify new attack vectors in the architecture
Penetration testing of the integrated application in its target environment
The engineer is executing security verification. Verification asks "Are we building the product right?"-it examines whether the implementation correctly follows the documented design and requirements, often by reviewing code, interfaces, and other work products before the system is assembled or released for testing.
Validation, in contrast, answers "Are we building the right product?" by determining whether the completed system meets user and business needs, typically through system or acceptance testing. Threat modeling is a design-time analysis of potential attacks, and penetration testing is a post-implementation activity that attempts to exploit the running system. Therefore, only verification matches the described pre-integration conformance check against specifications.
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