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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

UML component diagrams

A Unified Modeling Language (UML) component diagram is a structural diagram that provides a high-level overview of the components, their relationships, and the organization of a system or application. Component diagrams depict the physical or logical components that make up a software system and how these components interact with each other to provide system functionality.

Here are the key elements and conventions of a UML component diagram:

  • Component: Components are modular units representing a physical or logical system part. Components can be software modules, libraries, hardware devices, or more extensive subsystems. Each component is typically represented as a rectangle with the component name inside. Figure 5.1 shows the UML component notation.
Figure 5.1 – UML component notation

Figure 5.1 – UML component notation

Interface: Interfaces define the services, methods, or operations that a component provides or requires. Interfaces are shown...