Hackable: How to Do Application Security Right
Whether you’re a technology executive, developer, or security professional, you are responsible for securing your application. However, you may be uncertain about what works, what doesn’t, how hackers exploit applications, or how much to spend. Or maybe you think you do know, but don’t realize what you’re doing wrong.
To defend against attackers, you must think like them. As a leader of ethical hackers, Ted Harrington helps the world’s foremost companies secure their technology. Hackable teaches you exactly how. You’ll learn how to eradicate security vulnerabilities, establish a threat model, and build security into the development process. You’ll build better, more secure products. You’ll gain a competitive edge, earn trust, and win sales.
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'Hackable' gives facts and wisdom!
The writing pulls you in, but more importantly this is a crucial discussion of cyber-threats and how to counter them for personal and business applications. Covers cyber-security for cryptocurrencies, apps, personal finance, and more!
If this is the last book you read make it HACKABLE!
It's 202X and the great robot wars have ravaged the earth's surface. What humans are left alive live in underground bunkers connected by a series of tubes. Even though the world has ended, you made sure that in the last amazon order of toilet paper and tuna fish you also ordered Hackable. You read it by candlelight each night. And each night getting closer to realizing this is the only thing which keeps you going. ITS A PAGE TURNER. There's a cat and a horse, there's drama and intrigue. It teaches you how to budget your bottle caps (earth's last currency) for security. SECURITY is all that matters now and the enemy is run by AI written applications. But this book helped you realize that the AI was written by rushed coders. Ted showed you how you need an effective security team to partner with you to assess your code. The AI runs scanners but that's no match for your crack team of hackers in your bunker. You connect to the robot's network and realize it's full of vulnerabilities! You get a root shell on the AI machine and you turn to your partners and say, "I'm in." Your team single handedly destroys the robot threat and now you must rebuild human society. Thanks Ted!
Getting security right is an attitude
As a friend and fellow author, Ted Harrington generously shared an advanced copy of his incredible new book. I was unsure what to expect because the concepts of "hacking" and the entire security industry are all a complete mystery. HACKABLE is far more than a book about application security; when you look beyond the specific words unique to the industry, the book's core is built on service, leadership, and personal excellence. These two sentences so accurately describe Ted's intent of the book: "Getting security right is an attitude. It's a mindset. It's a pursuit of excellence. You want to write the best code. You want to build the best product. That means you need to get security right, too." This book has all of the elements you would expect and need in learning how to do application security right but written in an engaging, fun, energetic way. Highly recommend it for novices and experts alike!
Valuable information for security expert and consumer alilke
It's surprising how many companies do security wrong. Sometimes due to lack of knowledge, but must often due to a lack of funds. In Hackable, Ted Harrington clearly explains why there is no excuse for the former, even if you need to hire professionals to do it, and why not spending the money up front to do it right results in spending even more money on the back end to fix problems once they're identified. Ted balances concepts with specificity, and technical explanations alongside storytelling in a way that experts will appreciate and consumers can understand.
A MUST read for any CTO/CEO/Security Professional!
FINALLY! I have seen Ted talk at many different security conferences including RSA, DEF CON, and Black Hat. I'm a huge fan of his take on not only how to properly implement security, but how to use security as a differentiator to grow your current customers and bring in new ones as well. This book is perfect: not too long, not too technical. I am currently a part of an enterprise-level software company and the insights I have gleaned from this book will help me 1) Help me better communicate to the executive team why security matters 2) Begin to implement real change 3) better secure my app and 4) use security as a differentiator to grow my business and increase sales. Going to recommend this to everyone I know (and not just to make myself look good :))
Invaluable and accessible!
Ted Harrington offers invaluable and accessible step-by-step guidelines for how to manage an organization’s cyber security. He is clearly passionate about this work, and his desire to share this knowledge, not only so that organizations can succeed in providing cyber secure applications for their customers, but so that the world can ultimately be a safer place. This book is a gift to all of us!
Very helpful and informative!
This book contains a wealth of helpful and informative information! It's a lifesaver and a must read for anyone in the field of application security. I've been looking for a book that covers this subject in detail for a long time and this book finally checks all of the boxes! It's an easy read and hard to put it down! Once you finish reading this book you'll definitely be better off for it.
Great book! Engaging & accessible. A must read for everyone, not just cybersecurity teams
Application Security is the fastest moving sector in cyber. Driven by business opportunity, development teams everywhere are launching and supporting applications with serious vulnerabilities. Hackable gives readers a wealth of information and distills Ted's decades of experience into a framework that is actionable and attainable. Ted's focus on how to turn security into competitive advantage is a breath of fresh air in today's fear-based cyber-economy. Ted's writing style is engaging and accessible making Hackable is a page-turner that will enhance your knowlede help you improve your organization's security immediately.
Comprehensive read on the tenets of application security
Fantastic guidance on how to pragmatically think about appsec. This book should be regarded as required reading for anyone looking to expand the breadth of their understanding regarding security, and establishing procedures to discover and eliminate vulnerabilities. A very straightforward read, yet written in a way that holds the reader's interest throughout the book. Very highly recommended.
Quality Content; Would Read Again
I've worked in security-adjacent jobs throughout my career and I've seen many, many preventable security shortcomings. If everyone could think like Ted from time to time, it would help guide them to more secure system design and review. It might make my job a little harder but would definitely create more secure products for all the end-users!
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