Ed DeCosta

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How to Shed the Villains and Soar in Business and in Life

Drawing upon his 20+ years of experience in the corporate world and over a dozen years of executive coaching, Ed has seen every type of leader imaginable. From the charismatic cheerleader, and always-grouchy commander, to the soft-spoken "uncle" and passionate zealot, successful leaders come in all shapes and sizes. Effective leadership, of course, begins with self leadership. In each of the 34 chapters of Release Your Superhero, Ed describes a "superpower" that is anything but supernatural. In plain language, Ed shares his thoughts on how one can obtain each of these powers, the benefits of possessing them and the obstacles to overcome to attain these capabilities.

Release Your Superhero

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Chris Wysopal

Dino Dai Zovi

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Luke Nelson

Business & Economics

Identifying Software Security Flaws

Risk-based security testing, the important subject of this book, is one of seven software security touchpoints introduced in my book, Software Security: Building Security In. This book takes the basic idea several steps forward. Written by masters of software exploit, this book describes in very basic terms how security testing differs from standard software testing as practiced by QA groups everywhere. It unifies in one place ideas from Michael Howard, David Litchfield, Greg Hoglund, and me into a concise introductory package. Improve your security testing by reading this book today."

-Gary McGraw, Ph.D., CTO, Cigital; Author, Software Security, Exploiting Software, Building Secure Software, and Software Fault Injection; www.cigital.com/~gem

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"As 2006 closes out, we will see over 5,000 software vulnerabilities announced to the public. Many of these vulnerabilities were, or will be, found in enterprise applications from companies who are staffed with large, professional, QA teams. How then can it be that these flaws consistently continue to escape even well-structured diligent testing? The answer, in part, is that testing still by and large only scratches the surface when validating the presence of security flaws. Books such as this hopefully will start to bring a more thorough level of understanding to the arena of security testing and make us all a little safer over time."

-Alfred Huger, Senior Director, Development, Symantec Corporation

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"Software security testing may indeed be an art, but this book provides the paint-by-numbers to perform good, solid, and appropriately destructive security testing: proof that an ounce of creative destruction is worth a pound of patching later. If understanding how software can be broken is step one in every programmers'' twelve-step program to defensible, secure, robust software, then knowledgeable security testing comprises at least steps two through six."

-Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer, Oracle

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"Over the past few years, several excellent books have come out teaching developers how to write more secure software by describing common security failure patterns. However, none of these books have targeted the tester whose job it is to find the security problems before they make it out of the R&D lab and into customer hands. Into this void comes The Art of Software Security Testing: Identifying Software Security Flaws. The authors, all of whom have extensive experience in security testing, explain how to use free tools to find the problems in software, giving plenty of examples of what a software flaw looks like when it shows up in the test tool. The reader learns why security flaws are different from other types of bugs (we want to know not only that ''the program does what it''s supposed to,'' but also that ''the program doesn''t do that which it''s not supposed to''), and how to use the tools to find them. Examples are primarily based on C code, but some description of Java, C#, and scripting languages help for those environments. The authors cover both Windows and UNIX-based test tools, with plenty of screenshots to see what to expect. Anyone who''s doing QA testing on software should read this book, whether as a refresher for finding security problems, or as a starting point for QA people who have focused on testing functionality."

-Jeremy Epstein, WebMethods

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State-of-the-Art Software Security Testing: Expert, Up to Date, and Comprehensive

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The Art of Software Security Testing delivers in-depth, up-to-date, battle-tested techniques for anticipating and identifying software security problems before the "bad guys" do.

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Drawing on decades of experience in application and penetration testing, this book''s authors can help you transform your approach from mere "verification" to proactive "attack." The authors begin by systematically reviewing the design and coding vulnerabilities that can arise in software, and offering realistic guidance in avoiding them. Next, they show you ways to customize software debugging tools to test the unique aspects of any program and then analyze the results to identify exploitable vulnerabilities.

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Coverage includes

 * Tips on how to think the way software attackers think to strengthen your defense strategy
 * Cost-effectively integrating security testing into your development lifecycle
 * Using threat modeling to prioritize testing based on your top areas of risk
 * Building testing labs for performing white-, grey-, and black-box software testing
 * Choosing and using the right tools for each testing project
 * Executing today''s leading attacks, from fault injection to buffer overflows
 * Determining which flaws are most likely to be exploited by real-world attackers

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This book is indispensable for every technical professional responsible for software security: testers, QA specialists, security professionals, developers, and more. For IT managers and leaders, it offers a proven blueprint for implementing effective security testing or strengthening existing processes.

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Foreword xiii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxix

About the Authors xxxi

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Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Case Your Own Joint: A Paradigm Shift from Traditional Software Testingnbsp; 3

Chapter 2: How Vulnerabilities Get Into All Softwarenbsp; 19

Chapter 3: The Secure Software Development Lifecyclenbsp; 55

Chapter 4: Risk-Based Security Testing: Prioritizing Security Testing with Threat Modelingnbsp; 73

Chapter 5: Shades of Analysis: White, Gray, and Black Box Testingnbsp; 93

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Part II: Performing the Attacks

Chapter 6: Generic Network Fault Injectionnbsp; 107

Chapter 7: Web Applications: Session Attacksnbsp; 125

Chapter 8: Web Applications: Common Issuesnbsp; 141

Chapter 9: Web Proxies: Using WebScarab nbsp;169

Chapter 10: Implementing a Custom Fuzz Utilitynbsp; 185

Chapter 11: Local Fault Injectionnbsp; 201

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Part III: Analysis

Chapter 12: Determining Exploitabilitynbsp; 233

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Indexnbsp; 251

The Art of Software Security Testing

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The Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today's Global Economy

Compelling and practical view of computer security in a multinational environment – for everyone who does business in more than one country.

Mapping Security

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Karen Harrington

Art, music, drama/theater

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Cora Bigwood

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Engaging Children with Music

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Marc Abrahams

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Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research

Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel prize, offers an addictive, wryly funny expos of the most improbable research from around the world. From the bizarre to the profound, Abrahams will make readers laugh, and then think about the world in a completely new way.

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