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<p><b>Secure your applications with help from your favorite Jedi masters</b> <p>In <i>Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars</i>, accomplished security expert and educator Adam Shostack delivers an easy-to-read and engaging discussion of security threats and how to develop secure systems. The book will prepare you to take on the Dark Side as you learn—in a structured and memorable way—about the threats to your systems. You’ll move from thinking of security issues as clever one-offs and learn to see the patterns they follow. <p>This book brings to light the burning questions software developers should be asking about securing systems, and answers them in a fun and entertaining way, incorporating cybersecurity lessons from the much-loved Star Wars series. You don’t need to be fluent in over 6 million forms of exploitation to face these threats with the steely calm of a Jedi master. <p>You’ll also find: <ul> <li>Understandable and memorable introductions to the most important threats that every engineer should know</li> <li>Straightforward software security frameworks that will help engineers bake security directly into their systems</li> <li>Strategies to align large teams to achieve application security in today’s fast-moving and agile world</li> <li>Strategies attackers use, like tampering, to interfere with the integrity of applications and systems, and the kill chains that combine these threats into fully executed campaigns</li></ul><p>An indispensable resource for software developers and security engineers, <i>Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars</i> belongs on the bookshelves of everyone delivering or operating technology: from engineers to executives responsible for shipping secure code.