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Secure and Resilient Software Development
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Secure and Resilient Software Development

by Mark S. Merkow, Lakshmikanth Raghavan
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 31m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Chapter 2

Characteristics of Secure and Resilient Software

In Chapter 1 we defined software resilience as the ability to reduce the magnitude and/or duration of disruptive events. The effectiveness of a resilient application or infrastructure software depends on its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or recover rapidly from a potentially disruptive event.

We also surveyed the landscape of effects from insecure and poorly designed or developed software and the wake of damaged and defunct organizations that a tsunami of bad code leaves behind.

Chapter Overview

Chapter 2 focuses on the beginning steps that will leave the present state on the heap of history. We’ll compare and contrast functional and nonfunctional requirements and we’ll ...

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ISBN: 9781439826973