Threats

What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars

Adam Shostack

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
22 January 2023

Computer security; Network security

Secure your applications with help from your favorite Jedi masters

In Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars, accomplished security expert and educator Adam Shostack delivers an easy-to-read and engaging discussion of security threats and how to develop secure systems. The book will prepare you to take on the Dark Side as you learn—in a structured and memorable way—about the threats to your systems. You’ll move from thinking of security issues as clever one-offs and learn to see the patterns they follow.

This book brings to light the burning questions software developers should be asking about securing systems, and answers them in a fun and entertaining way, incorporating cybersecurity lessons from the much-loved Star Wars series. You don’t need to be fluent in over 6 million forms of exploitation to face these threats with the steely calm of a Jedi master.

You’ll also find:

Understandable and memorable introductions to the most important threats that every engineer should know Straightforward software security frameworks that will help engineers bake security directly into their systems Strategies to align large teams to achieve application security in today’s fast-moving and agile world Strategies attackers use, like tampering, to interfere with the integrity of applications and systems, and the kill chains that combine these threats into fully executed campaigns

An indispensable resource for software developers and security engineers, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars belongs on the bookshelves of everyone delivering or operating technology: from engineers to executives responsible for shipping secure code.

By: Adam Shostack
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781119895169
ISBN 10: 1119895162
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 22 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface xi Introduction xv 1 Spoofing and Authenticity 1 2 Tampering and Integrity 41 3 Repudiation and Proof 63 4 Information Disclosure and Confidentiality 95 5 Denial of Service and Availability 131 6 Expansion of Authority and Isolation 151 7 Predictability and Randomness 187 8 Parsing and Corruption 211 9 Kill Chains 249 Epilogue 291 Glossary 295 Bibliography 303 Story Index 317 Index 323

ADAM SHOSTACK is a technologist, entrepreneur, and game designer. One of the world’s leading experts on threat modeling, he wrote Threat Modeling: Designing for Security and is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. He is a member of the BlackHat Review Board and the founder of Shostack + Associates, a specialized security consultancy dedicated to helping organizations deliver secure systems.