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Software Security Library Boxed Set, First Edition
by: Gary McGraw, John Viega, Greg Hoglund

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780321418708
ISBN: 0321418700
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1392
Publication Date: February 20, 2006
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Sales Rank: 736512
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional

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What is it about software that makes security such a problem? If you want to build secure software, how do you do it? These questions and the perseverance of three of the world's leading security experts, Gary McGraw, John Viega, and Greg Hoglund, led to the three books contained in this package. Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way, the white hat book, seems to have touched off a revolution. Security people who once relied solely on firewalls, intrusion detection, and anti-virus mechanisms came to understand and embrace the necessity of better software. This book provides a coherent and sensible philosophical foundation for the blossoming field of software security. Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, the black hat book, provides a much needed balance, teaching how to break software and how malicious hackers write exploits. This book is meant as a reality check for software security, ensuring that the good guys address real attacks and invent and peddle solutions that actually work. Exploiting Software and Building Secure Software are in some senses mirror images.Software Security: Building Security In unifies the two sides of software security--attack and defense, exploiting and designing, breaking and building--into a coherent whole. Like the yin and the yang, software security requires a careful balance.

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- All you need
All you need for getting started with creating secure and reliable software is in this box. The three books cover from starting new software from the scratch to testing and verifying already deployed software. Sadly it relies too much on Cigital tools, but it's just a chapter, the rest of the stuff is gold.
Great reading for anyone interested in software security.

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- A good place to start with software security
There is some redundancy in the content of these three books, but I prefer to think of it as reinforcement. Each of the book focuses on a different aspect of the software security issue. From the full software development lifecycle to code creation to test, this set covers it all. I particularly enjoyed the "Exploiting Software" book as it provided an interesting insight into the other side of the development process - that of breaking the systems that have been developed. The box set is a great deal on Amazon since the price is about 30% less than buying the books individually so you basically buy 2 and get 1 free. And since all three are useful this is actually a good deal. I'm currently using the information from "Software Security: Building Security In" to drive a process improvement initiative within my company to improve secure development practices. The only reason this collection of books didn't ... Read More

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