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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

What could go wrong?

Over the past few decades, there have been tens of thousands of successful malicious software security attacks. These include a data attack that affected approximately 40 million Target customers, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, which involved unauthorized access to user data through a third-party app’s API, and an XSS scripting attack that, within 20 hours, infected over one million Myspace profiles.

Hundreds of thousands of unintended user mistakes are due to poorly designed or implemented software. These mistakes often go unreported, even though the software or experiment may fail, or humans are harmed. Some examples include NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter, where the spacecraft’s navigation software used metric units, while ground control provided data in imperial units. This mismatch resulted in incorrect calculations, causing the orbiter to approach Mars at too low an altitude, ultimately leading to its failure. Another...