Fisher D. Application Security Program Handbook. A Guide...2022

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Stop dangerous threats and secure your vulnerabilities without slowing down delivery. This practical book is a one-stop guide to implementing a robust application security program.
Application Security Program Handbook teaches you to implement a robust program of security throughout your development process. It goes well beyond the basics, detailing a flexible approach that can adapt and evolve to new and emerging threats. Follow the expert advice in this guide and you’ll reliably deliver software that is free from security defects and critical vulnerabilities.
Some application security program designs are excellent, and some need work. This book by Derek Fisher does a fantastic job of helping you understand what an effective application security program should look like for the modern applications your organization is developing today with aggressive CI/CD pipelines.
In chapter 1, you’ll see the how an application security program can be used to reduce the vulnerabilities that are developed in an application and why it can sometimes be a challenge and where some organizations have fallen short. In chapter 2, you’ll start to learn about what the tenets of security are and how adversaries create risk to the defense of an organization’s assets