Chapter 9. Software Security Meets Security Operations[1]

Software Security Meets Security OperationsTouchpointslist ofsecurity operationsParts of this chapter appeared in original form in IEEE Security & Privacy magazine coauthored with Ken van Wyk [van Wyk and McGraw 2005].
 

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

 
 --RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Traditionally, software development efforts at large corporations have been about as far removed from information security as they were from HR or any other particular business function. Not only that, but software development also has a tendency to be highly distributed among business units, and for that reason not even practiced in a cohesive, coherent manner. In the worst cases, roving bands of developers are traded like Pokémon cards in a fifth-grade classroom between busy business unit executives trying to ...

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