WSTG - v4.1
Suggested Reading
Whitepapers
- The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing
- Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures
- NIST Publications
- Software Assurance: An Overview of Current Practices
- The OWASP Guide Project
- Use Cases: Just the FAQs and Answers
Books
- The Art of Software Security Testing: Identifying Software Security Flaws, by Chris Wysopal, Lucas Nelson, Dino Dai Zovi, Elfriede Dustin, published by Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0321304861 (2006)
- Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way, by Gary McGraw and John Viega, published by Addison-Wesley Pub Co, ISBN 020172152X (2002)
- The Ethical Hack: A Framework for Business Value Penetration Testing, By James S. Tiller, Auerbach Publications, ISBN 084931609X (2005)
- Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, by Gary McGraw and Greg Hoglund, published by Addison-Wesley Pub Co, ISBN 0201786958 (2004)
- The Hacker’s Handbook: The Strategy behind Breaking into and Defending Networks, By Susan Young, Dave Aitel, Auerbach Publications, ISBN: 0849308887 (2005)
- Hacking Exposed: Web Applications 3, by Joel Scambray, Vinvent Liu, Caleb Sima, published by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 007222438X (2010)
- The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws, 2nd Edition - [published by Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto, ISBN 9781118026472 (2011)]
- How to Break Software Security, by James Whittaker, Herbert H. Thompson, published by Addison Wesley, ISBN 0321194330 (2003)
- How to Break Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services, by Make Andrews, James A. Whittaker, published by Pearson Education Inc., ISBN 0321369440 (2006)
- Innocent Code: A Security Wake-Up Call for Web Programmers, by Sverre Huseby, published by John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470857447(2004)
- Mastering the Requirements Process, by Suzanne Robertson and James Robertson, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0201360462
- Secure Coding: Principles and Practices, by Mark Graff and Kenneth R. Van Wyk, published by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596002424 (2003)
- Secure Programming HOWTO, David Wheeler (2015)
- Securing Java, by Gary McGraw, Edward W. Felten, published by Wiley, ISBN 047131952X (1999)
- Software Security: Building Security In, by Gary McGraw, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0321356705 (2006)
- Software Testing In The Real World (Acm Press Books) by Edward Kit, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0201877562 (1995)
- Software Testing Techniques, 2nd Edition, By Boris Beizer, International Thomson Computer Press, ISBN 0442206720 (1990)
- The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications, by Michael Zalewski, published by No Starch Press Inc., ISBN 047131952X (2011)
- The Unified Modeling Language – A User Guide – by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0321267974 (2005)
- The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Ivar published by Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-57168-4 (1998)
- Web Security Testing Cookbook: Systematic Techniques to Find Problems Fast, by Paco Hope, Ben Walther, published by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596514832 (2008)
- Writing Secure Code, by Mike Howard and David LeBlanc, published by Microsoft Press, ISBN 0735617228 (2004)
Useful Websites
- Build Security In
- CERT Secure Coding Standards
- McAfee Foundstone Publications
- McAfee Free Tools
- OASIS Web Application Security (WAS) TC
- Open Source Software Testing Tools
- SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC)
- The Open Web Application Application Security Project (OWASP)
- Pentestmonkey - Pen Testing Cheat Sheets
- Secure Coding Guidelines for the .NET Framework 4.5
- Security in the Java platform
- System Administration, Networking, and Security Institute (SANS)
- Web Application Security Consortium
- Web Application Security Scanner List
- Web Security – Articles
- Testing Client Side Security issues