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Security-Driven Software Development

By : Aspen Olmsted
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Security-Driven Software Development

By: Aspen Olmsted

Overview of this book

Extend your software development skills to integrate security into every aspect of your projects. Perfect for any programmer or developer working on mission-critical applications, this hands-on guide helps you adopt secure software development practices. Explore core concepts like security specifi cation, modeling, and threat mitigation with the iterative approach of this book that allows you to trace security requirements through each phase of software development. You won’t stop at the basics; you’ll delve into multiple-layer att acks and develop the mindset to prevent them. Through an example application project involving an entertainment ticketing software system, you’ll look at high-profi le security incidents that have aff ected popular music stars and performers. Drawing from the author’s decades of experience building secure applications in this domain, this book off ers comprehensive techniques where problem-solving meets practicality for secure development. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the expertise to systematically secure software projects, from crafting robust security specifi cations to adeptly mitigating multifaceted threats, ensuring your applications stand resilient in the face of evolving cybersecurity challenges.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Modeling a Secure Application
8
Part 2: Mitigating Risks in Implementation
13
Part 3: Security Validation

Language-specific defenses

Different programming languages may have specific features and functions to handle input validation and sanitization. Some older and lower-level languages, such as C and C++, require more manual programming to defend against input attacks. Here are language-specific defenses for input validation and sanitization in some commonly used programming languages:

  • Java:
    • Input validation:
      • Use libraries such as Apache Commons Validator for validating various types of input (for example, emails, URLs, and so on)
      • Leverage regular expressions for complex input validations
    • Input sanitization:
      • Use the Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) library for input validation and encoding to prevent common security vulnerabilities
      • HTML-encode user inputs when rendering dynamic content in web applications
  • Python:
    • Input validation:
      • Utilize built-in libraries such as re for regular expression-based validation
      • Leverage the validator library for validating various types of data...