She Hacks Purple: Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding

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Learn to code securely from the very beginning, with this straightforward and approachable guide! Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding is an accessible and thorough resource for anyone seeking to incorporate, from the beginning of the System Development Life Cycle, best security practices in software development. This book covers all the basic subjects such as threat modeling and security testing, but also dives deep into more complex and advanced topics for creating secure code, like specific types of vulnerabilities (and how to counter them). Throughout, the book offers analogies, stories of the characters Alice and Bob, real-life examples, technical explanations and diagrams to these abstract and complicated subjects become crystal clear.The covered topics Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding is perfect for aspiring application security engineers and practicing software developers, as well as software project managers, penetration testers, and chief information security officers who seek to build or improve their application security programs. Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding illustrates all the included concepts with easy-to-understand examples and concrete practical applications, furthering the reader’s ability to grasp and retain the foundational and advanced topics contained within.