Software Development Practices Help Enterprises Tackle Real-Life Risks

**Executive Summary:** This article argues that cybersecurity must extend beyond the SOC into all business functions and recommends applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles to processes like hiring, vendor approval, and project planning to embed security early. It highlights practical controls—threat profiling, OSINT monitoring of new hires, explicit onboarding/offboarding access revocation, and early security-team integration—and uses the example of an accidental hire linked to a North Korean threat actor to illustrate risks.