Best Practices

Are you ready to consistently and appropriately manage the financial, operational, and reputational risks that stem from unauthorized and unmanaged access to source code? The following high-level steps are common practice amongst our 3,000+ commercial and corporate client organizations.

• Establish consistent policies to communicate appropriate IP protection requirements.
• Select standard controls and technologies to ensure consistent risk management practices .
• Ensure appropriate levels of protection can be readily applied with minimum side-effects or operational complexity. Condition developers to indicate sensitive and/or high performing code typically via custom attributes (or annotations).
• Ensure all of the above is appropriately reflected within your development methodology, e.g. Agile, etc.
• Modify third party agreements to extend these controls to parties with non-transferable authorized access to source code.
   

Our professional services organization stands ready to share best practices and peer benchmarks to facilitate the definition and assimilation of IP protection policies, practices, and technologies specifically designed to align your development practices with your organization's appetite for risk.