At Parallel Minds, we understand and accept the extreme importance of mitigating security risks of every kind in a low-code environment. Here’s a quick list of best practices we always bet on to offer our clients secure and high-performance low-code solutions.

Governance and Guidelines: It is crucial for an organization to plan and put in place a governance framework that delivers clear guidelines and adopts evolving policies to address security risks and highlight potential gaps associated with a low-code environment. All IT teams and departments involved in generating low code must remain aware of these policies and be able to contribute to their effectiveness by forwarding suggestions that are reviewed, accepted, and included as policy changes.

Vendor Compliance: It is essential to evaluate and determine the security status of all low-code platform vendors you are onboarding through a rigid process that involves a peek into their security protocols, storage and encryption processes, response blueprints, and compliance certifications like the latest ISO and SOC 2.

Security Training: Your team’s security protocols and procedures are only as good as the training you give them. A thorough training module that takes your IT team as well as your citizen developers through a series of vulnerabilities like coding procedures, injection attacks, access control, and input validation gives every developer a lowdown of possible risks along with a brief on essential security practices to avoid them.

Access Control Blueprints: It is important to review every layer of security and access control before enabling individual access to various elements of your LCDP as well as developed apps. Roles that are properly defined, proper permissions to various components, and a robust authentication protocol are all crucial elements of an access control blueprint. Introduce steps like multi-factor authorization and zero-trust logins to further solidify your access control roadmap.

Data Handling Procedures: While proper encryption of data is essential whether it is at rest or going down the different layers of the development cycle, equally essential is the access you allow. Instead of providing blanket access and then weeding out non-essential personnel, it is always a better idea to do things the other way around and grant access only to those who require the data to deliver their objectives.

Vulnerability Monitoring: Irrespective of how watertight your security blueprint may seem, it is always recommended to scan the entire development environment for potential vulnerabilities. Regular monitoring helps you identify risks and introduce patches and updates to all internal and vendor-side processes. This also ensures the overall functionality of your current security protocol structure.

Testing and Modeling: While monitoring takes care of possible gaps, testing and modeling help you define the areas in which you can introduce more rigid security protocols to optimize performance and speed. Threat modeling, remapping of codes, and penetration testing are procedures that help enhance your security blueprint.

DevSecOps Model: Your DecSecOps model must integrate and strictly follow rigid security protocols from the early development stage and distribute responsibility to various departments and individuals instead of only holding the IT team responsible for security upkeep. Only when everyone in the organization is aware and invested can the security blueprint work well.

Regular Policy Reinforcements: While it is important to have rigid security policies in place across the development infrastructure of your organization, it is even more important to reinforce these policies from time to time and remind everyone involved of why they are important and things to do or not do to keep the policies in action.

At Parallel Minds, we are aware of both the potential and risks associated with a low-code development environment and by understanding and mitigating risks, we are able to explore in full the potential of LCDPs.