Markus Schumacher – författare

Most security books are targeted at security engineers and specialists. Few show how build security into software. None breakdown the different concerns facing security at different levels of the system: the enterprise, architectural and operational layers. Security Patterns addresses the full spectrum of security in systems design, using best practice solutions to show how to integrate security in the broader engineering process. Essential for designers building large-scale systems who want best practice solutions to typical security problemsReal world case studies illustrate how to use the patterns in specific domainsFor more information visit www.securitypatterns.org

For quite some time, in systems and software design, security only came as a second thought or even as a nice-to-have add-on. However, since the breakthrough of the Internet as a virtual backbone for electronic commerce and similar applications, security is now recognized as a fundamental requirement. This book presents a systematic security improvement approach based on the pattern paradigm. The author first clarifies the key concepts of security patterns, defines their semantics and syntax, demonstrates how they can be used, and then compares his model with other security approaches. Based on the author's model and best practice in security patterns, security novices are now in a position to understand how security experts solve problems and can basically act like them by using the patterns available as building blocks for their designs.

Die Sicherheit einer IT-Komponente hängt meist direkt von einer oder mehreren anderen Komponenten ab, wobei diese Abhängigkeiten komplex und schwer erfassbar sind. In diesem Buch wird das Thema Sicherheit daher systematisch betrachtet: Lösungen für immer wiederkehrende Sicherheitsprobleme werden erstmals in Form von "Security Patterns" dargestellt. Die Grundlage hierfür bilden langjährige Erfahrungen, die im Rahmen des "Hacker Contest" gesammelt wurden. Die Grundsätze des Hackens bzw. Crackens sowie prinzipieller Angriffs- und Schutzkonzepte werden vermittelt. Um Sicherheitslücken erkennen und effizient schliessen zu können, muss ein Sicherheitsexperte in der Lage sein, Netze und Systeme aus der Sicht eines Angreifers zu verstehen. Hierbei hilft ihm die konsequent praxisbezogene Darstellung der Autoren.