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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

Designing a Secure Functional Model

Designing a secure, functional model is crucial in building a secure software application. The functional model defines how the application’s features and functionalities work together while considering security.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover designing a secure functional model by looking at the following main topics:

  • Requirements gathering and specification
  • Non-functional requirements and security
  • Capturing scenarios
  • Textual use cases and misuse cases
  • Graphical use cases and misuse cases
  • Example enterprise secure functional model

The goal of this chapter is to develop the tools and techniques to formally specify what needs to be built and what should be true when the software is running.