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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

Example – developing an enterprise secure system model

Throughout this book, we will build a secure design for an event ticketing system.

Envision a software system that allows a box office or a website to sell tickets to a famous musical concert or theatre event.

We modify our earlier activity diagram by adding swimlanes to separate the partitions in Figure 5.15. Swimlanes are useful in activity diagrams, as you can see when messages cross partition boundaries.

In this example, we have three partitions: the web browser, the web server, and the database server. Vulnerabilities often exist when messages are passed across the partition boundaries.

Figure 5.15 – Activity diagram with swimlanes

Figure 5.15 – Activity diagram with swimlanes

In Figure 5.16, we introduce a component model that shows the same three components from the preceding activity diagram swimlanes and a few interfaces supported by the components.

Figure 5.16 – Ticketing system component model

Figure 5.16 – Ticketing system...