Art of Software Security Testing, The: Identifying Software Security Flaws: Identifying Software Security Flaws

by Chris Wysopal, Lucas Nelson, Dino Dai Zovi

This book gives developers and testers everything they need to understand software security problems and find them before software is released and the damage is done. The authors open with an overview of the root security problem and how insecure design and implementation leaves software vulnerable to exploit. Next, the authors teach readers to create custom software debugging tools that test the unique aspects of a given program and explain how to analyze the results to determine which flaws are exploitable vulnerabilities. Finally, they bring everything together in a series of detailed case studies that follow the testing process through each step. After reading The Art of Software Security Testing, anyone with testing or coding experience will be able to pick up any piece of software and find previously unknown security problems.

Genres: Technology

298 pages, Paperback

First published November 17, 2006

Reviews

[Jac · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good beginners text that covers the main sources of vulnerabilities and introduces some good basic tools for testing. I think I want to own it as a reference book for my shelf.