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Crafting Secure Software

You're reading from   Crafting Secure Software An engineering leader's guide to security by design

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835885062
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Security Landscape 2. Chapter 2: The Software Supply Chain and the SDLC FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Securing Your Code-Writing Tools 4. Chapter 4: Securing Your Secrets 5. Chapter 5: Securing Your Source Code 6. Chapter 6: Securing Your Delivery 7. Chapter 7: Security Compliance and Certification 8. Chapter 8: Best Practices to Drive Security Buy-In 9. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations: Index

What are they demanding, and how can you address it?

Legislators and regulators are increasingly demanding robust data protection measures, enhanced user privacy controls, and greater transparency in how end user data is handled. We’re going to cover some best practices that will help you meet the practice bars of many of these laws and regulations. We specify practice because that’s based on behaviors, policies, and mechanisms. Practice is defined as what you do. Compliance is defined as proving it to the satisfaction of the legal or certification body that determines your practices are adequate and takes corrective action if they’re not.

Protect your code and systems access

In the prior chapters, we’ve discussed multiple things, ranging from how deleting a password from a GitHub repository is not sufficient to remediate a leak to how your IDE plugins can be compromised. This is why, to protect your code and systems from potential threats, you should...

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