Books and eBooks
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Designing Secure Software
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What every software professional should know about security. Designing Secure Software consolidates Loren Kohnfelder's more than twenty years of experience into a concise, elegant guide to improving the security of technology products. Written for a wide range of software professionals, it emphasizes building security into software design early and involving the entire team in the process. The book begins with a discussion of core concepts like trust, threats, mitigation, secure design patterns, and cryptography. The second part, perhaps this book's most unique and important contribution to the field, covers the process of designing and reviewing a software design with security considerations in mind. The final section details the most common coding flaws that create vulnerabilities, making copious use of code snippets written in C and Python to illustrate implementation vulnerabilities. You'll learn how to- . Identify important assets, the attack surface, and the trust boundaries in a system . Evaluate the effectiveness of various threat mitigation candidates . Work with well-known secure coding patterns and libraries . Understand and prevent vulnerabilities like XSS and CSRF, memory flaws, and more . Use security testing to proactively identify vulnerabilities introduced into code . Review a software design for security flaws effectively and without judgment Kohnfelder's career, spanning decades at Microsoft and Google, introduced numerous software security initiatives, including the co-creation of the STRIDE threat modeling framework used widely today. This book is a modern, pragmatic consolidation of his best practices, insights, and ideas about the future of software.
Call Number: QA76.758.K675 2022ISBN: 9781718501928Publication Date: 2021-12-21 -
The Essence of Software
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A revolutionary concept-based approach to thinking about, designing, and interacting with software As our dependence on technology increases, the design of software matters more than ever before. Why then is so much software flawed? Why hasn't there been a systematic and scalable way to create software that is easy to use, robust, and secure? Examining these issues in depth, The Essence of Software introduces a theory of software design that gives new answers to old questions. Daniel Jackson explains that a software system should be viewed as a collection of interacting concepts, breaking the functionality into manageable parts and providing a new framework for thinking about design. Through this radical and original perspective, Jackson lays out a practical and coherent path, accessible to anyone--from strategist and marketer to UX designer, architect, or programmer--for making software that is empowering, dependable, and a delight to use. Jackson explores every aspect of concepts--what they are and aren't, how to identify them, how to define them, and more--and offers prescriptive principles and practical tips that can be applied cost-effectively in a wide range of domains. He applies these ideas to contemporary software designs, drawing examples from leading software manufacturers such as Adobe, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and others. Jackson shows how concepts let designers preserve and reuse design knowledge, rather than starting from scratch in every project. An argument against the status quo and a guide to improvement for both working designers and novices to the field, The Essence of Software brings a fresh approach to software and its creation.
Call Number: QA76.76.D47J288 2021ISBN: 9780691225388 -
Ethical and Legal Aspects of Computing
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This textbook presents an overview of the critically important ethical and legal issues that arise in the computing field and provides a professional perspective from software engineering. The author gained exposure to these aspects of computing while working as a software engineer at Motorola in Ireland, where he coordinated the patent programme and worked with several software suppliers. Topics and features: Presents a broad overview of ethics and the law Includes key learning topics, summaries, and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary Discusses the professional responsibility of computer professionals Explores ethics in various civilisations and religious traditions Discusses ethical software engineering and ethical outsourcing Considers what is fair and ethical in data science Describes ethical challenges that arise in social media and the AI field Reviews intellectual property including patents, copyright and trademarks This practical and easy-to-follow textbook/reference is ideal for computer science students seeking to understand legal and ethical aspects of computing. The text also serves as a concise self-study primer for software engineers and software managers.
Call Number: QA76.9.M65 2024ISBN: 9783031526633Publication Date: 2024-03-24 -
Green Software Engineering
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Craft sustainable software and reduce digital environmental impact with practical strategies and principles Key FeaturesDiscover practical strategies for developing energy-efficient digital solutions across various domainsLearn effective strategies to measure and mitigate the environmental impact of digital solutionsExplore real-world examples of integrating sustainable design patterns into the software development cyclePurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionEmbark on a transformative journey toward sustainable software engineering, exploring the vital intersection of technology and environmental responsibility.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781835885888Publication Date: 2024 -
Innovative Trends in Personalized Software Engineering and Information Systems
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This book, Innovative Trends in Personalized Software Engineering and Information Systems - The Case of Intelligent and Adaptive E-learning Systems, studies the development of personalized and knowledge-based systems with the purpose of developing fully-automated adaptive software, mainly focusing on enhancing digital learning.The authors cover several integral phases of software engineering and their application in the effective implementation of sophisticated learning technology systems. Systems development and systems evaluation, tailored to adaptive e-learning, are examined in depth. More specifically, intelligent and knowledge-based techniques, such as artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, pattern recognition, learning analytics and data mining, as well as evaluation frameworks adapted to digital learning software are presented.This publication will be of interest to scientists from various disciplines, including computer science, artificial intelligence, education and psychology, and will help researchers working in computer science and engineering to build intelligent and adaptive learning technology systems by employing personalization techniques while following the basic concepts of software engineering and information systems. It will also serve as a valuable tool for junior and senior scientists, supporting their research activities in the field of personalized and knowledge-based software engineering, and instructors will be able to use the book as a guide to the effective design and development of intelligent systems in education.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781643680972 -
Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems
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A comprehensive review of the life cycle processes, methods, and techniques used to develop and modify software-enabled systems Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems offers an authoritative review of the most current methods and techniques that can improve the links between systems engineering and software engineering. The author--a noted expert on the topic--offers an introduction to systems engineering and software engineering and presents the issues caused by the differences between the two during development process. The book reviews the traditional approaches used by systems engineers and software engineers and explores how they differ. The book presents an approach to developing software-enabled systems that integrates the incremental approach used by systems engineers and the iterative approach used by software engineers. This unique approach is based on developing system capabilities that will provide the features, behaviors, and quality attributes needed by stakeholders, based on model-based system architecture. In addition, the author covers the management activities that a systems engineer or software engineer must engage in to manage and lead the technical work to be done. This important book: Offers an approach to improving the process of working with systems engineers and software engineers Contains information on the planning and estimating, measuring and controlling, managing risk, and organizing and leading systems engineering teams Includes a discussion of the key points of each chapter and exercises for review Suggests numerous references that provide additional readings for development of software-enabled physical systems Provides two case studies as running examples throughout the text Written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and practitioners, Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems offers a comprehensive resource to the traditional and current techniques that can improve the links between systems engineering and software engineering.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781119535034
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