Secure by Design

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· Sold by Simon and Schuster
Ebook
400
Pages
Eligible

About this ebook

Summary

Secure by Design teaches developers how to use design to drive security in software development. This book is full of patterns, best practices, and mindsets that you can directly apply to your real world development. You'll also learn to spot weaknesses in legacy code and how to address them.

About the technology

Security should be the natural outcome of your development process. As applications increase in complexity, it becomes more important to bake security-mindedness into every step. The secure-by-design approach teaches best practices to implement essential software features using design as the primary driver for security.

About the book

Secure by Design teaches you principles and best practices for writing highly secure software. At the code level, you’ll discover security-promoting constructs like safe error handling, secure validation, and domain primitives. You’ll also master security-centric techniques you can apply throughout your build-test-deploy pipeline, including the unique concerns of modern microservices and cloud-native designs.

What's inside

Secure-by-design concepts
Spotting hidden security problems
Secure code constructs
Assessing security by identifying common design flaws
Securing legacy and microservices architectures

About the reader

Readers should have some experience in designing applications in Java, C#, .NET, or a similar language.

About the author

Dan Bergh Johnsson, Daniel Deogun, and Daniel Sawano are acclaimed speakers who often present at international conferences on topics of high-quality development, as well as security and design.

About the author

Daniel Sawano is a software developer, architect, and frequent speaker at international conferences. He has extensive experience from working with high-performance systems in industries such as stock trading, gaming, telco, and media. Daniel holds a master of science degree and is passionate about software design, performance, and security. He is an advocate of combining good software design principles with security thinking to create systems that are both secure and agile.

Dan Bergh Johnsson is a senior consultant and VP at Omegapoint in Sweden. Dan is an Agile aficionado, Domain Driven Design enthusiast, and code quality craftsman, with a long time interest in security. While working in the crossroad of system development and security, he has helped numerous clients in different domains towards higher security of their custom-built systems. Dan shares his passion as a regular speaker at renowned international conferences as well as on his blog Dear Junior.

Daniel Deogun has a masters degree in computer science and is a senior consultant and VP at Omegapoint in Sweden. He specializes in the crossing between application development and security. His experience ranges from life supporting systems to web applications to high-performance software in various fields. Combining this with his passion for high quality design have made him a frequent speaker at renowned conferences all over the world.

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