By developing upfront security guidelines and best practices, appDefense can assist your organization by defining the ground rules through which application development should be conducted. These guidelines can be used as a framework for your application development as well as a criteria of third party firms or consultants. These guidelines include secure standards for application architecture, testing, error handling, build and deployment processes. Security experts establish a process for evaluation of tools, technologies and languages to assist your development teams in making those decisions. We have seen a significant reduction of vulnerabilities found in risk assessments when such guidelines and practices are in place at a project's inception.