Software Security: Building Security In

by Gary McGraw

"When it comes to software security, the devil is in the details. This book tackles the details."
--Bruce Schneier, CTO and founder, Counterpane, and author of Beyond Fear and Secrets and Lies "McGraw's book shows you how to make the 'culture of security' part of your development lifecycle."
--Howard A. Schmidt, Former White House Cyber Security Advisor "McGraw is leading the charge in software security. His advice is as straightforward as it is actionable. If your business relies on software (and whose doesn't), buy this book and post it up on the lunchroom wall."
--Avi Rubin, Director of the NSF ACCURATE Center; Professor, Johns Hopkins University; and coauthor of Firewalls and Internet Security Beginning where the best-selling book Building Secure Software left off, Software Security teaches you how to put software security into practice.The software security best practices, or touchpoints, described in this book have their basis in good software engineering and involve explicitly pondering security throughout the software development lifecycle. This means knowing and understanding common risks (including implementation bugsand architectural flaws), designing for security, and subjecting all software artifacts to thorough, objective risk analyses and testing. Software Security is about putting the touchpoints to work for you. Because you can apply these touchpoints to the software artifacts you already produce as you develop software, you can adopt this book's methods without radically changing the way you work. Inside you'll find detailed explanations of In addition to the touchpoints, Software Security covers knowledge management, training and awareness, and enterprise-level software security programs. Now that the world agrees that software security is central to computer security, it is time to put philosophy into practice. Create your own secure development lifecycle by enhancing your existing software development lifecycle with the touchpoints described in this book. Let this expert author show you how to build more secure software by building security in.

Genres: Technical, Computer Science, Technology, Programming, Nonfiction, Computers, Hackers

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Allisonperkel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still a great read even though it's dated. However, if you haven't thought about software security or the process of building software, this isn't a bad introduction.

Based on the number of breaches still happening, even outdated, this book is highly valuable.

Note the writing is dry (with occasional bits of buying humor) and if you have good dev processes in place, there are chapters you can skip.

[Tyler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly SDLC based and really interesting reading on baking security into the software development lifecycle. A good read for high level application security work.

[Ruben Steins · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a collection of articles transmogrified into a book. This leads to a lot of repetition when read from cover to cover. The upside is that most chapters can be read and understood in isolation, which makes it a decent reference book.

[Max Ong Zong Bao · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great book regarding on software security that makes me started to have a interest in information security

[Kristian Andersen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Repeats itself so many times to the point where it becomes obnoxious. Some usefull information but it has to be wheated out from between all the croft

[Mayank Dhiman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Extremely padded. The entire information can be condensed into less than 100 pages.
Still, good content and food for thought!