Epigrams in the book
I like clever sayings and wise proverbs, the shorter the better, so I wanted to work a number of them into the book.
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The book Designing Secure Software: a guide for developers took nearly two years from finding a publisher to publication. These posts tell part of my experience developing the book and writing it. Writing a book is the ideal project for riding out a pandemic.
Book on sale tomorrow
Finally my software security book is available for general sale tomorrow (December 21, 2021). Recent events such as the Log4j vulnerability demonstrate that our work is far from over (and the latest Microsoft security update lists 35 CVE).
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Learning from Log4j
With Log4j very much in the news, if I could update my new book by magic it would make a terrific real world example to write about because it ties together a number of topics in the book.
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A Wicked Problem
A wicked problem is one that is difficult to even clearly describe because of its diffuse and interconnected nature, and this is a useful lens to view software security.
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Shipping
At last, print copies of my book Designing Secure Software: A Guide for Developers are now in stock, but only from the publisher.
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References links checking
While writing this book I curated a list of web references for sources of material or details beyond what made sense to incorporate in the text.
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Vulnerabilities are Mistakes
Spilled coffee beans, breaking the sound barrier, and software security
The Right Stuff is Tom Wolfe’s popular history of the US astronaut program, and it begins by recounting the early effort to break the sound barrier which involved such frequent crashes that there were weekly funerals for test pilots.
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