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Crafting Secure Software

Crafting Secure Software

By : Greg Bulmash, Thomas Segura
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Crafting Secure Software

Crafting Secure Software

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By: Greg Bulmash, Thomas Segura

Overview of this book

Drawing from GitGuardian's extensive experience in securing millions of lines of code for organizations worldwide, Crafting Secure Software takes you on an exhaustive journey through the complex world of software security and prepares you to face current and emerging security challenges confidently. Authored by security experts, this book provides unique insights into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and delivers actionable advice to help you mitigate and prevent risks. From securing code-writing tools and secrets to ensuring the integrity of the source code and delivery pipelines, you’ll get a good grasp on the threat landscape, uncover best practices for protecting your software, and craft recommendations for future-proofing against upcoming security regulations and legislation. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a clear vision of the improvements needed in your security posture, along with concrete steps to implement them, empowering you to make informed decisions and take decisive action in safeguarding your software assets.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Appendix: Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations: Index

Securing your VCS and SCM

It should be noted that VCS and SCM are used interchangeably by many in tech. Since the most used tool for those is Git and its own appellation is Git SCM, we’ll standardize on SCM for the rest of this discussion.

As noted before, one of the ways hackers inject vulnerabilities and malware and gain access to privileged information is by compromising your SCM. The most popular tool for version control and SCM is Git SCM.10 This is the open source version of Git on which commercial services such as GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassian Bitbucket are based.

Git was created by Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, to replace the current software he and other Linux contributors were using. It has since become the de facto source code manager and version control tool for the bulk of both open source and closed source projects. According to GitHub’s 2023 Octoverse report, 93% of developers currently use Git.11

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