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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

ROI in cybersecurity

Return on Investment (ROI) is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive ROI, and a good one at that, in order to be viable.

The problem is that security is not an investment that provides a return, such as a new factory or a financial instrument. It’s an expense that, hopefully, pays for itself in cost savings. Security is about loss prevention, not about earnings. So, while security can’t produce ROI, loss prevention most certainly affects a company’s bottom line.

Most importantly, while ROI may not be a perfect fit, it’s a concept that business folks are very familiar with. Since security teams do not exist for their own benefit, and have very real costs of their own, communicating risk in security-specific terms makes it very difficult for business leaders to understand how to value their efforts.

You’ll need to know how to talk about ROI if you want to convince your business partners...

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