Chapter 2. A Risk Management Framework[1]

 

No noble thing can be done without risks.

 
 --MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

We’ve all said it—security is risk management. However, nomenclature remains a persistent problem in the security community. The idea of risk management as a key tenet of security, though pervasive and oft repeated, is presented under a number of different rubrics in software security, attached to particular processes, such as “threat modeling” and “risk analysis,” as well as to larger-scale activities such as “security analysis.” As I describe in Chapter 1, a continuous risk management process is a necessity. By teasing apart architectural risk analysis (one of the critical software security touchpoints described later in the book) and an ...

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