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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

Threat Modeling

Threat modeling systematically identifies and evaluates potential security threats and vulnerabilities in a software application, system, or network. It is a proactive security technique used to understand and address security risks during the design and development stages. Threat modeling aims to reduce the likelihood and impact of security breaches by identifying and mitigating potential threats early in the development process.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover threat modeling by looking at the following main topics:

  • Threat model overview
  • STRIDE
  • DREAD
  • Attack trees
  • Mitigations
  • Microsoft threat modeling
  • Example of the enterprise threat model

By the end of this chapter, you will understand how and why we use threat models. You will also have had exposure to several thread modeling frameworks.