Researchers, faculty and staff who maintain code associated with the University of Illinois have a responsibility to comply with Illinois Cybersecurity standards.

The Cybersecurity Development and Assurance team:

Provides individualized guidance to campus development teams on best practices for Cybersecurity outcomes
Publishes KnowledgeBase resources that help campus developers meet their responsibility to comply with campus IT standards
Maintains custom automation supporting agile response by the Cybersecurity Operations Center to cybersecurity incidents and indications of compromise

Any campus IT professional can start an engagement by emailing a request to securitysupport@illinois.edu.

Unless the request details merit a different approach, we will start by scheduling a discussion starting from these Vulnerability Prevention Discussion Questions,

Common requests include:

How do I write this code securely?
Is there an existing solution for a problem my team is facing?
Are there tools for my team’s framework that make patching code libraries easier?
How do I start with automated testing?
When should I use unit, integration or regression testing?
How can I improve my unit tests?
Can I automate this?
Can these solutions run in my Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipeline?
I’m stuck.

Developers are encouraged to review Cybersecurity Resources for Developers in the Campus Knowledge Base and reach out to schedule an engagement at securitysupport@illinois.edu