ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
While planning a developer training session on secure coding, you decide to reference the SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors. Which statement best describes the primary value of this list for your team?
It provides detailed recommendations on cryptographic algorithm choices and key lengths for data protection.
It highlights the most prevalent and severe programming mistakes that commonly lead to exploitable security flaws, guiding developers on where to focus remediation and prevention efforts.
It catalogues specific CVE identifiers and associated patches for known operating system vulnerabilities.
It ranks the top web application threats by prevalence and business impact to steer penetration-testing priorities.
The SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors is a community-maintained list that identifies the most common and serious programming mistakes-such as buffer overflows, injection flaws, and improper resource management-that frequently lead to exploitable vulnerabilities. By spotlighting the coding errors that attackers most often leverage, the list helps development teams focus their education, code reviews, and remediation efforts on issues that deliver the greatest security benefit when fixed.
The option describing a catalog of CVEs and patches refers to vulnerability databases like the NVD, not the SANS Top 25. The description of web application risks aligns with the OWASP Top 10, a separate resource focused on web threats rather than underlying coding errors. Guidance on cryptographic algorithm selection is typically provided by standards bodies such as NIST, not by the SANS Top 25 list.
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