Secure Code Review is a process which identifies the insecure piece of code which may cause a potential vulnerability in some stage of the Software Development Life Cycle − SDLC. A programmer may affirm, correctly:
When a vulnerability is detected in later stages of SDLC, it has less impact than the earlier stages, when the insecure code moves to the production environment.
When the application is being coded by a developer, he cannot do self-code review. He must ask a security analyst to perform the code review for him.
The developers may use automated tools which can be integrated with their IDE -Integrated Development Environment and can do coding and code review simultaneously.
Different studies and surveys show that approximately 75% of attacks happen due to a secure application, inside which includes secure code.
Developers mostly tend to focus on the secure coding approach and ignore the functionality of the application. But nowadays they have become less conscious about code review because incidents of hacking are decreasing.