Books
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Agile Application Security
Enabling Security in a Continuous Delivery Pipeline
by Laura Bell (Author), Michael Brunton-Spall (Author), Rich Smith (Author), Jim Bird (Author)
Agile is the most adopted software development methodology among organizations worldwide, but it generally hasn't integrated well with traditional security management techniques. And most security professionals aren’t up to speed in their understanding and experience of agile development. To help bridge the divide between these two worlds, this practical guide introduces several security tools and techniques adapted specifically to integrate with agile development.
Written by security experts and agile veterans, this book introduces security principles to agile practitioners and agile principles to security practitioners. The authors also reveal problems they encountered in their own experiences with agile security and how they worked to solve them.
Affordable, practical & expert guidance
Security for Everyone
Low-Cost Approaches for Growing Businesses to Secure What Matters Most
by Laura Bell (Author) and Erica Anderson (Author)
Security for Everyone focuses on practical, flexible, step-by-step, affordable approaches that can scale to suit your situation and needs in language non-technical folks can understand.
Securing your business can be daunting, especially when you’re small. Security for Everyone offers low-cost, scalable solutions to securing your startup or growing business. It will test your personal security assumptions and practices, setting you up to lead security for an ever-growing team. You’ll learn frameworks for understanding security at different stages of your business and be guided on a practical journey from a secure individual to security leader.
97 Things Every Application Security Professional Should Know
by Reet Kaur, Yabing Wang
(Includes an essay by Laura Bell Main)
n this fast-advancing technology world, almost everything is written as software or application. Together with the fast-evolving threat landscape, protecting customer data and ensuring the resilience of your business becomes the critical objective of all cybersecurity professionals. Weak application defenses can lead to serious consequences like regulatory fines, penalties, and loss of customer trust—especially for industries that handle sensitive or financial data. That's why it's imperative for security professionals to reinforce themselves with the latest insights to combat growing cyber threats.
In this go-to guide, editors Reet Kaur and Yabing Wang share key concepts, up-to-date best practices, and cutting-edge tools that today's cyber professionals need to ensure solid application security. The articles in this book include actionable advice on a wide variety of application security topics and thought-provoking questions that drive the direction of the field. You'll also receive expert advice from professionals on how to navigate your career within this industry.