Securing software applications has not exactly become easier with the advent of agile software development methodologies such as scrum. In this post, I review the book Agile Application Security (by Laura Bell, Michael Brunton-Spall, Rich Smith, and Jim Bird), introduce some of its key ideas, and summarize why I found it so insightful. This book guides software development teams on how to practically integrate security into their agile processes. I recommend it to two groups of readers: (1) information security ...
Atlassian’s collaboration tools Jira and Confluence are one of the most popular tools for managing software projects and group knowledge. Learn how to get access to these great tools for free. For the longest time, Atlassian charged 10$ per month per application in their “Standard” tier. While this is basically nothing for an established company, it is still discouraging for start ups and non-profits since it sums up to a bill of 240$ per year for the popular combination Jira ...