Our product and service organizations use the Adobe Secure Product Lifecycle (SPLC) process. This is a set of several hundred rigorous security activities spanning software development practices, processes, and tools that continuously evolves to incorporate the latest industry best practices. The Adobe SPLC is integrated into several stages of the product lifecycle, from design and development to quality assurance, testing, and deployment.
A dedicated team of industry experts in building, deploying, and monitoring secure applications and services, the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) works to help achieve the highest level of security for Adobe products and services. These experts consult with our development teams to help them constantly evolve our security efforts across all solutions.
Adobe maintains a robust program of “security champions” — developers and managers embedded within development teams who help implement the SPLC for their products. Security champions are part of our extended security team and work with our core security researchers to improve both their knowledge and the security of our products.
The Adobe Security Certification and Security Awareness programs offer ongoing training to enhance security knowledge throughout the company. The programs provide a foundation for everyone at Adobe to understand security fundamentals, and serve as a path for individuals who want to become security leaders within their product teams.
Integrated into several stages of the product lifecycle—from design and development to quality assurance, testing, and deployment— the Adobe Secure Product Lifecycle (SPLC) is the foundation of security at Adobe. A rigorous set of several hundred specific security activities spanning software development practices, processes, and tools, the Adobe SPLC defines clear, repeatable processes to help our development teams build security into our products and services and continuously evolves to incorporate the latest industry best practices.
This white paper describes the Adobe application security strategy, which focuses on introducing security controls early in the development cycle to help scale, reduce overall costs, and minimize the chances of actual security risks, all of which reinforces our commitment to modern security practices to protect Adobe and our customers’ data and workflows.
Adobe believes that every data action or interaction should be conducted through a lens of security to help ensure the safety, privacy, and availability of our customers' data. To achieve this goal, we've created a culture of security that permeates our company, and that helps foster better security across all our products and services. Find out more about the programs and policies we've put in place.