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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

Confidentiality, integrity, and availability

CIA is an acronym representing the core principles of information security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. These principles are fundamental to designing and implementing secure systems and are often called the CIA triad:

  • Confidentiality ensures that information is only accessible to those with authorized permissions. Software security involves encryption, access controls, and user authentication to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access.
  • Integrity ensures that information remains accurate and unaltered during storage, processing, or transmission. In software security, techniques such as data validation, checksums, digital signatures, and version control are used to maintain data and software integrity.
  • Availability ensures that information and resources are available and accessible when needed. Software security involves measures to prevent and mitigate disruptions, such as redundancy, failover systems...