This course covers section three of CSSLP Domain Four: Secure Coding Operations. You'll learn about code analysis, code reviews, secure build environments, anti-tampering techniques, and version management.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to analyze code and review it
- Understand how to ensure that build environments are secure
- Understand the importance of anti-tampering techniques and version control when building software
Intended Audience
This course is intended for anyone looking to develop secure software as well as those studying for the CSSLP certification.
Prerequisites
Any experience relating to information security would be advantageous, but not essential. All topics discussed are thoroughly explained and presented in a way allowing the information to be absorbed by everyone, regardless of experience within the security field.
Now, none of this will come to much unless we have proper versioning and configuration management. So we have version control that ensures that the development team is working with the current correct version of code and versioning provides the ability to track ownership and changes of that code. It also enables rollback to a previous version if that should become required. Doing this can reduce the instances of a condition known as regenerative bugs, and this occurs when bug fixes are overwritten when incorrect versions are used.
We want to be sure that the bugs we've killed stay dead. So we use this as a method of making sure of that. Now version control configuration management has become increasingly important and continues to be more important as software projects grow in complexity and size. Like so many of our practices, it needs to be done at all unit levels, unit stream, module, subsystem all the way through the complete end-to-end system. And it needs to be coordinated to ensure that all the units are tracking to the same master stage to ensure that we're not getting things confused or out of sequence.
Mr. Leo has been in Information System for 38 years, and an Information Security professional for over 36 years. He has worked internationally as a Systems Analyst/Engineer, and as a Security and Privacy Consultant. His past employers include IBM, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Computer Sciences Corporation, and Rockwell International. A NASA contractor for 22 years, from 1998 to 2002 he was Director of Security Engineering and Chief Security Architect for Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center. From 2002 to 2006 Mr. Leo was the Director of Information Systems, and Chief Information Security Officer for the Managed Care Division of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.
Upon attaining his CISSP license in 1997, Mr. Leo joined ISC2 (a professional role) as Chairman of the Curriculum Development Committee, and served in this role until 2004. During this time, he formulated and directed the effort that produced what became and remains the standard curriculum used to train CISSP candidates worldwide. He has maintained his professional standards as a professional educator and has since trained and certified nearly 8500 CISSP candidates since 1998, and nearly 2500 in HIPAA compliance certification since 2004. Mr. leo is an ISC2 Certified Instructor.