STRENGTHEN SOFTWARE SECURITY BY HELPING DEVELOPERS AND SECURITY EXPERTS WORK TOGETHER
Traditional approaches to securing software are inadequate. The solution: Bring software engineering and network security teams together in a new, holistic approach to protecting the entire enterprise. Now, four highly respected security experts explain why this “confluence” is so crucial, and show how to implement it in your organization.
Writing for all software and security practitioners and leaders, they show how software can play a vital, active role in protecting your organization. You’ll learn how to construct software that actively safeguards sensitive data and business processes and contributes to intrusion detection/response in sophisticated new ways. The authors cover the entire development lifecycle, including project inception, design, implementation, testing, deployment, operation, and maintenance. They also provide a full chapter of advice specifically for Chief Information Security Officers and other enterprise security executives.
Whatever your software security responsibilities, Enterprise Software Security delivers indispensable big-picture guidance–and specific, high-value recommendations you can apply right now.
COVERAGE INCLUDES:
• Overcoming common obstacles to collaboration between developers and IT security professionals
• Helping programmers design, write, deploy, and operate more secure software
• Helping network security engineers use application output more effectively
• Organizing a software security team before you’ve even created requirements
• Avoiding the unmanageable complexity and inherent flaws of layered security
• Implementing positive software design practices and identifying security defects in existing designs
• Teaming to improve code reviews, clarify attack scenarios associated with vulnerable code, and validate positive compliance
• Moving beyond pentesting toward more comprehensive security testing
• Integrating your new application with your existing security infrastructure
• “Ruggedizing” DevOps by adding infosec to the relationship between development and operations
• Protecting application security during maintenance
Table of Contents:
Preface xiii
1 Introduction to the Problem 1
Our Shared Predicament Today 2
Why Are We in This Security Mess? 5
Ancient History 7
All Together Now 11
The Status Quo: A Great Divide 15
What’s Wrong with This Picture? 20
Wait, It Gets Worse 25
Stressing the Positive 27
Summing Up 30
Endnotes 31
2 Project Inception 33
Without a Formal Software Security Process–The Norm Today 34
The Case for a Project Security Team 42
Tasks for the Project Security Team 43
Putting Together the Project Security Team 50
Roles to Cover on the Security Team 51
Some Final Practical Considerations about Project Security Teams 64
Summing Up 67
Endnotes 68
3 Design Activities 71
Security Tiers 72
On Confluence 76
Requirements 78
Specifications 98
Design and Architecture 100
It’s Already Designed 112
Deployment and Operations Planning 115
Summing Up 121
Endnotes 121
4 Implementation Activities 123
Confluence 123
Stress the Positive and Strike the Balance 124
Security Mechanisms and Controls 126
Code Reuse 146
Coding Resources 148
Implementing Security Tiers 152
Code Reviews 154
A Day in the Life of a Servlet 157
Summing Up 167
Endnotes 167
5 Testing Activities 169
A Few Questions about Security Testing 170
Tools of the Trade 180
Security Bug Life Cycle 185
Summing Up 191
Endnotes 192
6 Deployment and Integration 193
How Does Deployment Relate to Confluence? 194
A Road Map 194
Advanced Topics in Deployment 198
Integrating with the Security Operations Infrastructure 200
Third-Generation Log Analysis Tools 213
Retrofitting Legacy and Third-Party Components 216
Notes for Small Shops or Individuals 217
Summing Up 219
Endnotes 220
7 Operating Software Securely 221
Adjusting Security Thresholds 222
Dealing with IDS in Operations 230
Identifying Critical Applications 236
CSIRT Utilization 237
Notes for Small Shops or Individuals 238
Summing Up 240
8 Maintaining Software Securely 241
Common Pitfalls 243
How Does Maintaining Software Securely Relate to Confluence? 248
Learning from History 249
Evolving Threats 251
The Security Patch 254
Special Cases 256
How Does Maintaining Software Securely Fit into Security SDLCs? 259
Summing Up 261
Endnotes 262
9 The View from the Center 263
Ideas for Encouraging Confluent Application Development 265
Toward a Confluent Network 269
Security Awareness and Training 273
Policies, Standards, and Guidelines 274
The Role of Other Departments and Corporate Entities 275
Resource Budgeting and Strategic Planning for Confluence 277
Assessment Tools and Techniques 279
Mobile Plans–Postmortem Interviews 289
Notes for Small Shops or Individuals 292
Summing Up 292
Endnotes 293
Index 295
About the Author :
Kenneth R. van Wyk is a career security guy, having started with Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT/CC in the late 1980s and subsequently worked for the United States Department of Defense and in several senior technologist roles in the commercial sector. He is the co-author of two popular O’Reilly and Associates books on incident response and secure coding. He now owns and runs KRvW Associates, LLC, a software security consulting and training practice in Virginia, USA.
Mark G. Graff is the CISO of NASDAQ OMX. Formerly the chief cybersecurity strategist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he has appeared as an expert witness on computer security before Congress and analyzed electronic voting machine software security for the state of California. A past chairman of the International Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), Graff has lectured on risk analysis, the future of cyber security, and privacy before the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Pentagon, and many U.S. national security facilities and think tanks.
Dan S. Peters has been involved with security for longer than he had first expected when he stumbled into this field out of curiosity while making a good living as a consultant and a commercial software developer. Many security disciplines are exciting to him, but mobile security has been the most intriguing topic as of late. Before working on this book, Dan repeatedly shared his passion for security in conference presentations and numerous publications.
Diana L. Burley, Ph.D., is an award-winning cyber-security workforce expert who has been honored by the U.S. Federal CIO Council and was named the CISSE 2014 Cybersecurity Educator of the Year. As a professor, researcher, and consultant on IT use and workforce development for nearly 20 years, she passionately promotes a holistic view of cyber security to influence education, policy, and practice from her home in the Washington, D.C., region.
