The presentation discusses the importance of better software security through auto remediation and the challenges associated with it. It emphasizes the need for trustworthiness, accuracy, and insightfulness in auto remediation.
- Auto remediation is about facilitating the process of remediation and reducing the number of unattended issues.
- Standardized fixed approach helps with triaging and prioritization.
- Auto remediation can combat the security knowledge gap and better allocate resources.
- Trust is important in auto remediation and it must be designed to accommodate the developer's concerns.
- Auto remediation should be proactive, accurate, and reduce noise and ambiguity.
- Insightfulness is important in auto remediation to provide suggestions that garner more trust from the end user.
- Auto remediation must drive results and be developer-centric.
- The challenges associated with auto remediation include the proper placement and annotation of sanitization and the potential for inadvertent changes to the logic of the application.
- Traditional remediation approaches can be confounding and irrelevant to developers.
- Auto remediation should embrace a developer's standpoint and provide confirmation that the solution will work.