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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

Modeling interactions between objects

Modeling interactions between objects is a fundamental aspect of object-oriented software design. It involves defining how objects communicate, collaborate, and work together to achieve the functionality of a software system. To model interactions effectively, you can use various techniques and diagrams. What follows are modeling techniques you can use to model object interactions. We explored use case diagrams in Chapter 2; we will explore several other models in this chapter and the next.

  • Use case diagrams: Use case diagrams to assist you in modeling the interactions between the system and its actors. Actors can be users or external systems that interact with the software. Use cases represent specific interactions between the actors and the system, showing what functionality is available and how it’s accessed. In Chapter 2, we talked a lot about textual use cases and graphical use cases.
  • Sequence diagrams: Sequence diagrams...