Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software - Softcover

Howard, Michael; Lipner, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735622140 ISBN 13: 9780735622142

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2006

Synopsis

Your customers demand and deserve better security and privacy in their software. This book is the first to detail a rigorous, proven methodology that measurably minimizes security bugs—the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). In this long-awaited book, security experts Michael Howard and Steve Lipner from the Microsoft Security Engineering Team guide you through each stage of the SDL—from education and design to testing and post-release. You get their first-hand insights, best practices, a practical history of the SDL, and lessons to help you implement the SDL in any development organization.

Discover how to:

• Use a streamlined risk-analysis process to find security design issues before code is committed
• Apply secure-coding best practices and a proven testing process
• Conduct a final security review before a product ships
• Arm customers with prescriptive guidance to configure and deploy your product more securely
• Establish a plan to respond to new security vulnerabilities
• Integrate security discipline into agile methods and processes, such as Extreme Programming and Scrum

Includes a CD featuring:

• A six-part security class video conducted by the authors and other Microsoft security experts
• Sample SDL documents and fuzz testing tool

PLUS—Get book updates on the Web.

For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

About this title

From the Publisher

The software industry is clamoring to learn more about the SDL methodology. With insights direct from Microsoft’s security team, where these techniques have been developed and proven to help reduce code defects, this book premieres SDL to a worldwide audience and is the first to detail the methodology stage by stage.

Key Book Benefits:

· Delivers practical, proven advice from the experts for minimizing security-related code defects

· Details a methodology that can be applied to any development process, with outstanding results

· Includes a CD-ROM with video training classes for developers conducted by coauthor Michael Howard, a security program manager at Microsoft

About the Author

Steve Lipner, CISSP, is the senior director of Security Engineering Strategy for Microsoft. He is responsible for defining and updating the Security Development Lifecycle and has pioneered numerous security techniques. Steve has over 35 years’ experience as a researcher, development manager, and general manager in IT security.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0735622140
• ISBN 13: 9780735622142
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352