Software Security Engineering: A Guide for Project Managers

Preface

The Problem Addressed by This Book^[*]

Software is ubiquitous. Many of the products, services, and processes that organizations use and offer are highly dependent on software to handle the sensitive and high-value data on which people’s privacy, livelihoods, and very lives depend. For instance, national security—and by extension citizens’ personal safety—relies on increasingly complex, interconnected, software-intensive information systems that, in many cases, use the Internet or Internet-exposed private networks as their means for communication and transporting data.

This ubiquitous dependence on information technology makes software security a key element of business continuity, disaster recovery, incident response, and national security. ...