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Realtimepublishers and Klocwork Release The Tips and Tricks Guide to Software Security Assurance for the Software Development Community

Posted on: Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 06:00 CST

Realtimepublishers, the leader in corporate sponsored ePublishing, and Klocwork Inc., the proven leader in delivering automated software solutions that improve software security and quality, announce the immediate availability of The Tips and Tricks Guide to Software Security Assurance. Written in an easy-to-read question and answer format, security expert Kevin Beaver addresses tools, techniques, and best practices for ensuring that your software products are secure from attacks.

"By addressing security issues throughout the software development lifecycle, which includes management, development, auditing, and testing, The Tips and Tricks Guide to Software Security Assurance provides real-world solutions for fixing software security flaws -- a major contributor to the information security problems we're experiencing today," explains author Kevin Beaver. "This guide is geared towards software developers, software development managers, information security consultants, and software testing and quality assurance personnel who are responsible for diminishing the number of security vulnerabilities present in the software they are producing."

For ease of use, the questions and their solutions are divided into the following four topics:

Topic 1: Managing for Software Security

Topic 2: Developing for Software Security

Topic 3: Auditing for Software Security

Topic 4: Testing for Software Security

"Software security is a significant issue facing software development teams, and is becoming more complex. Klocwork is committed to helping companies improve the security and quality of their software early in the development process, and we are pleased to sponsor this educational guide in order to make it available to the public. This knowledge will help developers prevent today's software security vulnerabilities and allow them to implement best practices to assist in preventing them in the future," said Nick Allen, director of marketing at Klocwork.

As an exclusive sponsor, Klocwork is offering download access to this title at no charge from their website (http://www.klocwork.com/ebook). Realtimepublishers will also offer the title at their own Content Central eBook portal (http://cc.realtimepublishers.com/portal.aspx?pubid=349).

About Realtimepublishers

Realtimepublishers is the leader in corporate sponsored ePublishing for the technology industry. With a who's who list of industry expert authors, a veteran editorial staff, and a leading content delivery system through its information portal, Content Central (http://cc.realtimepublishers.com), Realtimepublishers offers the most current expert resources for IT professionals. Realtimepublishers' sponsors include Microsoft, Novell, Computer Associates, VERITAS, and Dell. For more information, visit http://www.realtimepublishers.com.

About Klocwork

Klocwork is the proven leader of static analysis solutions that deliver software security and software quality. Klocwork's products detect and prevent security vulnerabilities and software defects, and provide architectural visualization and modeling tools to provide dramatic improvements to company's source code. Klocwork's patented technology is deployed at over a dozen Fortune 500 accounts, known for having the most demanding software development environments in the world. Klocwork is a privately held company with offices in Burlington, Mass., San Jose, Calif., Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Ottawa.

Source: Business Wire

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