Since I wasn’t able to find a category specific to secure coding practices, I wanted to share some of my experience in secure coding with the broader Xojo community. My coding background in Operation Technology (OT) spans back to the mid-90s.
I obtained Advanced Cybersecurity Certification in 2022 and have been helping clients in the OT space to build technical fluency in the art of secure coding practices. I’ve used Xojo to build secure real-time data integration solutions to move data from real-time systems in plant environments over to key business systems using technologies such as MQTT and OPC-UA.
The struggle is real when it comes to dealing with cybersecurity in those environments as some of the industries I work with are understandably heavily regulated where zero trust and other defense-in-depth strategies (such as encryption) have to be accounted for when writing code.
As I suspect many of us using Xojo are building applications for business use, there are several resources you can reference online to help you to make sure you are implementing secure coding practices with your projects:
Here are a few:
– Cybersecurity Framework | NIST
– Industrial Controls 101: A Guide to Building Integration Systems - Therma
Thanks!