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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 containers and artifacts

Containers play a pivotal role in modern software development, offering portability and consistency across environments. However, they also present security challenges. Developers often struggle with verifying the origin of container images and detecting potential tampering, while unknowingly using packages and images with known vulnerabilities. For example, a GitGuardian study found that approximately 7% of the images hosted on Docker exposed leaked secrets, which could potentially serve as backdoors for attackers to gain unauthorized access.3

To mitigate these risks, teams should implement container security scanning to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and hardcoded secrets before they get into the production environment, but also for build images that are used only in the pipelines. To secure containers and mitigate the supply chain risks of a malicious actor...

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