6 Secure Design
Overload, clutter, and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design.
—Edward Tufte
Once you have a solid understanding of security principles, patterns, and mitigations, the practice of integrating security into your software designs becomes relatively straightforward. As you discern threats to your design, you can apply these tools as needed and explore better design alternatives that reduce risk organically.
This chapter focuses on secure software design. It serves as a companion to Chapter 7, which covers security design reviews. These two topics are aspects of the same activity, viewed from ...
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