Seven Pernicious Kingdoms

It has been some time since I announced an installment of "Building Security In" in IEEE Security & Privacy magazine. I have been busy writing a new book called "Software Security" to be released in February. The book is based on the idea of the touchpoints first introduced and discussed in the BSI series. You can find copies of the BSI articles here <http://www.cigital.com/resources/gem/>. The most recent article "Seven Pernicious Kingdoms: A Taxonomy of Software Security Errors" was co-authored with Katrina Tsipenyuk and Brian Chess.  It is about how to classify and categorize security bugs. A complete list of the articles is pasted below.

I am sure many of you already subscribe to S&P. If you don't yet, you should...check out <http://www.computer.org/security>. Note that you can subscribe for $29 even without being an IEEE member <https://newton.computer.org/sssubs.nsf/application?openform&code=sp>.  BTW, the lead story in the new issue is covered by the NY Times today (FBI wiretapping hack).

In related news, I am pleased to announce the existence of the Addison-Wesley Software Security Series which I will edit. More on that later. In the meantime, if you're interested in writing an in depth technical book about software security please let me know.

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Gary McGraw, Ph.D.
CTO, Cigital
http://www.cigital.com

The S&P Building Security In series

Seven Pernicious Kingdoms: A Taxonomy of Software Security Errors
(November/December 2005)
Bridging the Gap Between Software Development and Information Security
(September/October 2005)
A Portal for Software Security (July/August 2005)
Adopting a Software Security Improvement Program (May/June 2005)
Knowledge for Software Security (March/April 2005)
Software Penetration Testing (January/February 2005)
Static Analysis for Security (November/December 2004)
Software Security Testing (September/October 2004)
Risk Analysis in Software Design (July/August 2004)
Misuse and Abuse Cases: Getting Past the Positive (May/June 2004)
Software Security (March/April 2004)

Used with permission of Dr. Gary McGraw, CTO, Cigital
http://www.cigital.com