Application Development Standards Sample Clauses

Application Development Standards. Application developers must ensure their programs contain the following security precautions. Applications:  should support authentication of individual users, not groups.  should not store passwords in clear text or in any easily reversible form.  should provide for some sort of role management, such that one user can take over the functions of another without having to know the other's password.  should support TACACS+ , RADIUS and/or X.509 with LDAP security retrieval, wherever possible.