Securing Development

Securing Development: Public Finance and the Security Sector highlights the role of public finance in the delivery of security and criminal justice services. This book offers a framework for analyzing public financial management, financial transparency, and oversight, as well as expenditure policy issues that determine how to most appropriately manage security and justice services. The interplay among security, justice, and public finance is still a relatively unexplored area of development. Such a perspective can help security actors provide more professional, effective, and efficient security and justice services for citizens, while also strengthening systems for accountability. The book is the result of a project undertaken jointly by staff from the World Bank and the United Nations, integrating the disciplines where each institution holds a comparative advantage and a core mandate. The primary audience includes government officials bearing both security and financial responsibilities, staff of international organizations working on public expenditure management and security sector issues, academics, and development practitioners working in an advisory capacity.

The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) brings together the world's finest development thinkers to present their perspectives and ideas. In recent years, a parallel, second conference has been held in Europe with the same goal of expanding the flow of ideas between thinkers, practitioners, and policymakers in the field of international development. This title presents selected papers from the seventh annual ABCDE - Europe meetings, held May 2005 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

IBM® has long been recognized as a leading provider of hardware, software, and services that are of the highest quality, reliability, function, and integrity. IBM products and services are used around the world by people and organizations with mission-critical demands for high performance, high stress tolerance, high availability, and high security. As a testament to this long-standing attention at IBM, demonstration of this attention to security can be traced back to the Integrity Statement for IBM mainframe software, which was originally published in 1973: IBM's long-term commitment to System Integrity is unique in the industry, and forms the basis of MVS (now IBM z/OS) industry leadership in system security. IBM MVS (now IBM z/OS) is designed to help you protect your system, data, transactions, and applications from accidental or malicious modification. This is one of the many reasons IBM 360 (now IBM Z) remains the industry's premier data server for mission-critical workloads. This commitment continues to apply to IBM's mainframe systems and is reiterated at the Server RACF General User's Guide web page. The IT market transformed in 40-plus years, and so have product development and information security practices. The IBM commitment to continuously improving product security remains a constant differentiator for the company. In this IBM RedguideTM publication, we describe secure engineering practices for software products. We offer a description of an end-to-end approach to product development and delivery, with security considered. IBM is producing this IBM Redguide publication in the hope that interested parties (clients, other IT companies, academics, and others) can find these practices to be a useful example of the type of security practices that are increasingly a must-have for developing products and applications that run in the world's digital infrastructure. We also hope this publication can enrich our continued collaboration with others in the industry, standards bodies, government, and elsewhere, as we seek to learn and continuously refine our approach.

Leads readers through the tasks and activities that successful computer programmers navigate on a daily basis.

Although many software books highlight open problems in secure software development, few provide easily actionable, ground-level solutions. Breaking the mold, Secure and Resilient Software Development teaches you how to apply best practices and standards for consistent and secure software development. It details specific quality software developmen

This is the eBook version of the printed book. Many organizations are diving headfirst into AJAX technologies to make their Web applications richer and more user friendly, but they often do not realize the security implications of the AJAX approach. Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX technologies, commonly known by the codename "Atlas," and other AJAX frameworks are changing the way Web applications look and are developed, but Web developers are often unaware of the security risks they are introducing into their applications with these emerging technologies. AJAX fundamentally changes the user experience and server interaction in Web applications, so developers may be taking otherwise secure applications and opening up new angles of attack for hackers. This short cut outlines the increased security risk inherent with AJAX technologies and addresses how developers can use Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX to implement secure AJAX applications. After discussing Web application security pitfalls that are common in AJAX development, given its focus on increased client processing and more frequent access to Web services and databases, the author focuses on a few key security principles for AJAX developers--demystifying AJAX security and teaching how to develop secure AJAX applications using ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. The short cut concludes with a walkthrough of security testing best practices that will help effectively uncover security problems in AJAX applications during development and testing. What This Short Cut Covers 3 Section 1: AJAX, ASPNET, and Atlas 4 Section 2: AJAX Security Pitfalls 19 Section 3: Securing ASPNET AJAX 44 Section 4: ASPNET AJAX Security Testing 81 About the Author 92

The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Smartphones and tablets have become more powerful and popular, with many of these devices now containing confidential business, financial, and personal information. This has led to a greater focus on mobile software security. Establishing mobile software security should be of primary concern to every mobile application developer. This book explains how you can create mobile social applications that incorporate security throughout the development process. Although there are many books that address security issues, most do not explain how to incorporate security into the building process. Secure Development for Mobile Apps does exactly that. Its step-by-step guidance shows you how to integrate security measures into social apps running on mobile platforms. You’ll learn how to design and code apps with security as part of the process and not an afterthought. The author outlines best practices to help you build better, more secure software. This book provides a comprehensive guide to techniques for secure development practices. It covers PHP security practices and tools, project layout templates, PHP and PDO, PHP encryption, and guidelines for secure session management, form validation, and file uploading. The book also demonstrates how to develop secure mobile apps using the APIs for Google Maps, YouTube, jQuery Mobile, Twitter, and Facebook. While this is not a beginner’s guide to programming, you should have no problem following along if you’ve spent some time developing with PHP and MySQL.

Secure software development is crucial in an era where cyber threats are pervasive and can have devastating consequences. In "Cyber Secure Software Development," cybersecurity expert Kris Hermans provides a comprehensive guide to help developers build resilient applications that withstand the ever-evolving threat landscape. Hermans demystifies the complexities of secure software development, empowering developers to integrate security practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Through real-world examples, practical insights, and step-by-step guidance, this book equips developers with the knowledge and skills needed to develop software with ironclad security. Inside "Cyber Secure Software Development," you will: 1. Understand software security principles: Gain a deep understanding of secure coding practices, secure design principles, and secure configuration management. Learn how to identify and mitigate common software vulnerabilities that can be exploited by cyber attackers. 2. Integrate security in the software development lifecycle: Learn how to embed security into every phase of the software development process, from requirements gathering to design, implementation, testing, and deployment. Discover methodologies and tools to ensure security is an inherent part of your development process. 3. Implement secure coding practices: Explore techniques to prevent common software vulnerabilities, such as injection attacks, cross-site scripting, and buffer overflows. Learn how to use secure coding frameworks, perform code reviews, and leverage automated security testing tools. 4. Secure data and protect privacy: Discover strategies to secure sensitive data and protect user privacy within your applications. Explore secure data storage, encryption, access controls, and data validation techniques to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of user information. 5. Build resilient applications: Learn how to design and build resilient applications that can withstand cyber attacks and minimize the impact of security incidents. Explore error handling, input validation, and threat modeling techniques to create robust applications with built-in resilience. "Cyber Secure Software Development" is the definitive guide for developers who aspire to build secure and resilient applications. Kris Hermans' expertise as a cybersecurity expert ensures that you have the knowledge and strategies to navigate the complex landscape of secure software development. Don't compromise on software security. Build resilient applications in the digital age with "Cyber Secure Software Development" as your trusted companion. Empower yourself to develop software that protects against cyber threats and stands the test of time.