Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars (Wiley)
Friday, 24 February 2023

In this book Adam Shostack delivers an easy-to-read and engaging discussion of security threats and how to develop secure systems. The book will prepare you to take on the Dark Side as you learn in a structured way about the threats to your systems.

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This book brings to light the burning questions software developers should be asking about securing systems, and answers them in a fun and entertaining way, incorporating cybersecurity lessons from the much-loved Star Wars series. You don’t need to be fluent in over 6 million forms of exploitation to face these threats with the steely calm of a Jedi master.

Author: Adam Shostack
Publisher: Wiley
Date: January 2023
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-1119895169
Print: 1119895162
Kindle: ‎ B0BT3RGRKS
Audience: General
Level: Intermediate
Category: Security

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Topics include:

 

  • Understandable and memorable introductions to the most important threats that every engineer should know
  • Straightforward software security frameworks that will help engineers bake security directly into their systems
  • Strategies to align large teams to achieve application security in today’s fast-moving and agile world
  • Strategies attackers use, like tampering, to interfere with the integrity of applications and systems, and the kill chains that combine these threats into fully executed campaigns

 

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