The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto

The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto
Author: Michelle Dennedy
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430263563

"It's our thesis that privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution and that innovators who are emphasizing privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track." --The authors of The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value is the first book of its kind, offering industry-proven solutions that go beyond mere theory and adding lucid perspectives on the challenges and opportunities raised with the emerging "personal" information economy. The authors, a uniquely skilled team of longtime industry experts, detail how you can build privacy into products, processes, applications, and systems. The book offers insight on translating the guiding light of OECD Privacy Guidelines, the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs), Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) and Privacy by Design (PbD) into concrete concepts that organizations, software/hardware engineers, and system administrators/owners can understand and apply throughout the product or process life cycle—regardless of development methodology—from inception to retirement, including data deletion and destruction. In addition to providing practical methods to applying privacy engineering methodologies, the authors detail how to prepare and organize an enterprise or organization to support and manage products, process, systems, and applications that require personal information. The authors also address how to think about and assign value to the personal information assets being protected. Finally, the team of experts offers thoughts about the information revolution that has only just begun, and how we can live in a world of sensors and trillions of data points without losing our ethics or value(s)...and even have a little fun. The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto is designed to serve multiple stakeholders: Anyone who is involved in designing, developing, deploying and reviewing products, processes, applications, and systems that process personal information, including software/hardware engineers, technical program and product managers, support and sales engineers, system integrators, IT professionals, lawyers, and information privacy and security professionals. This book is a must-read for all practitioners in the personal information economy. Privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution; innovators who emphasize privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track. Foreword by Dr. Eric Bonabeau, PhD, Chairman, Icosystem, Inc. & Dean of Computational Sciences, Minerva Schools at KGI.

Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Author: Nishant Bhajaria
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1638357188

Engineer privacy into your systems with these hands-on techniques for data governance, legal compliance, and surviving security audits. In Data Privacy you will learn how to: Classify data based on privacy risk Build technical tools to catalog and discover data in your systems Share data with technical privacy controls to measure reidentification risk Implement technical privacy architectures to delete data Set up technical capabilities for data export to meet legal requirements like Data Subject Asset Requests (DSAR) Establish a technical privacy review process to help accelerate the legal Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Design a Consent Management Platform (CMP) to capture user consent Implement security tooling to help optimize privacy Build a holistic program that will get support and funding from the C-Level and board Data Privacy teaches you to design, develop, and measure the effectiveness of privacy programs. You’ll learn from author Nishant Bhajaria, an industry-renowned expert who has overseen privacy at Google, Netflix, and Uber. The terminology and legal requirements of privacy are all explained in clear, jargon-free language. The book’s constant awareness of business requirements will help you balance trade-offs, and ensure your user’s privacy can be improved without spiraling time and resource costs. About the technology Data privacy is essential for any business. Data breaches, vague policies, and poor communication all erode a user’s trust in your applications. You may also face substantial legal consequences for failing to protect user data. Fortunately, there are clear practices and guidelines to keep your data secure and your users happy. About the book Data Privacy: A runbook for engineers teaches you how to navigate the trade-off s between strict data security and real world business needs. In this practical book, you’ll learn how to design and implement privacy programs that are easy to scale and automate. There’s no bureaucratic process—just workable solutions and smart repurposing of existing security tools to help set and achieve your privacy goals. What's inside Classify data based on privacy risk Set up capabilities for data export that meet legal requirements Establish a review process to accelerate privacy impact assessment Design a consent management platform to capture user consent About the reader For engineers and business leaders looking to deliver better privacy. About the author Nishant Bhajaria leads the Technical Privacy and Strategy teams for Uber. His previous roles include head of privacy engineering at Netflix, and data security and privacy at Google. Table of Contents PART 1 PRIVACY, DATA, AND YOUR BUSINESS 1 Privacy engineering: Why it’s needed, how to scale it 2 Understanding data and privacy PART 2 A PROACTIVE PRIVACY PROGRAM: DATA GOVERNANCE 3 Data classification 4 Data inventory 5 Data sharing PART 3 BUILDING TOOLS AND PROCESSES 6 The technical privacy review 7 Data deletion 8 Exporting user data: Data Subject Access Requests PART 4 SECURITY, SCALING, AND STAFFING 9 Building a consent management platform 10 Closing security vulnerabilities 11 Scaling, hiring, and considering regulations

Database Reliability Engineering

Database Reliability Engineering
Author: Laine Campbell
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 149192621X

The infrastructure-as-code revolution in IT is also affecting database administration. With this practical book, developers, system administrators, and junior to mid-level DBAs will learn how the modern practice of site reliability engineering applies to the craft of database architecture and operations. Authors Laine Campbell and Charity Majors provide a framework for professionals looking to join the ranks of today’s database reliability engineers (DBRE). You’ll begin by exploring core operational concepts that DBREs need to master. Then you’ll examine a wide range of database persistence options, including how to implement key technologies to provide resilient, scalable, and performant data storage and retrieval. With a firm foundation in database reliability engineering, you’ll be ready to dive into the architecture and operations of any modern database. This book covers: Service-level requirements and risk management Building and evolving an architecture for operational visibility Infrastructure engineering and infrastructure management How to facilitate the release management process Data storage, indexing, and replication Identifying datastore characteristics and best use cases Datastore architectural components and data-driven architectures

Designing for Privacy and its Legal Framework

Designing for Privacy and its Legal Framework
Author: Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-11-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3319986244

This book discusses the implementation of privacy by design in Europe, a principle that has been codified within the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). While privacy by design inspires hope for future privacy-sensitive designs, it also introduces the need for a common understanding of the legal and technical concepts of privacy and data protection. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach and comparing the problem definitions and objectives of both disciplines, this book bridges the gap between the legal and technical fields in order to enhance the regulatory and academic discourse. The research presented reveals the scope of legal principles and technical tools for privacy protection, and shows that the concept of privacy by design goes beyond the principle of the GDPR. The book presents an analysis of how current regulations delegate the implementation of technical privacy and data protection measures to developers and describes how policy design must evolve in order to implement privacy by design and default principles.

The Privacy Engineer’s Companion

The Privacy Engineer’s Companion
Author: Michelle Finneran Dennedy
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781484237052

Engineer privacy into software, systems, and applications. This book is a resource for developers, engineers, architects, and coders. It provides tools, methodologies, templates, worksheets, and guidance on engineering privacy into software—from ideation to release and beyond—for technologies, products, systems, solutions, and applications. This book can be used in conjunction with the ApressOpen bestseller, The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto. This book trains and equips users to engage in their own privacy scoping requirements workshops, write privacy use cases or “stories” for agile development, document UI privacy patterns, conduct assessments, and align with product and information security teams. And, perhaps most importantly, the book brings clarity to a vitally important need—the protection of personal information—that is often shrouded in mystery during the engineering process. Go from policy to code to QA to value, all within these pages. What You Will Learn Think of the Fair Information Principles as actionable, normative statements Decode privacy into functional requirements that can be designed and coded Prepare and conduct a privacy scoping requirements workshop Translate privacy requirements into usable stories for agile development Guide user interface designers in creating privacy controls and interfaces Access software, systems, applications, and apps to see if the necessary privacy controls are in place Create privacy engineering documentation (such as data flow diagrams and privacy impact assessments) so that tribal lore is translated into institutional knowledge Access and ready the enterprise to support privacy engineering Who This Book Is For Serves multiple stakeholders, including those involved in architecting, designing, developing, deploying, and reviewing systems, products, processes, applications, and apps that process personal information. This workbook will appeal to software/hardware engineers, technical program and product managers, support and sales engineers, system integrators, IT professionals, lawyers, and information privacy and security professionals.

The Checklist Manifesto

The Checklist Manifesto
Author: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1429953381

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third. In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.

Creating a Software Engineering Culture

Creating a Software Engineering Culture
Author: Karl E. Wiegers
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0133489299

This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 1996). Written in a remarkably clear style, Creating a Software Engineering Culture presents a comprehensive approach to improving the quality and effectiveness of the software development process. In twenty chapters spread over six parts, Wiegers promotes the tactical changes required to support process improvement and high-quality software development. Throughout the text, Wiegers identifies scores of culture builders and culture killers, and he offers a wealth of references to resources for the software engineer, including seminars, conferences, publications, videos, and on-line information. With case studies on process improvement and software metrics programs and an entire part on action planning (called “What to Do on Monday”), this practical book guides the reader in applying the concepts to real life. Topics include software culture concepts, team behaviors, the five dimensions of a software project, recognizing achievements, optimizing customer involvement, the project champion model, tools for sharing the vision, requirements traceability matrices, the capability maturity model, action planning, testing, inspections, metrics-based project estimation, the cost of quality, and much more! Principles from Part 1 Never let your boss or your customer talk you into doing a bad job. People need to feel the work they do is appreciated. Ongoing education is every team member’s responsibility. Customer involvement is the most critical factor in software quality. Your greatest challenge is sharing the vision of the final product with the customer. Continual improvement of your software development process is both possible and essential. Written software development procedures can help build a shared culture of best practices. Quality is the top priority; long-term productivity is a natural consequence of high quality. Strive to have a peer, rather than a customer, find a defect. A key to software quality is to iterate many times on all development steps except coding: Do this once. Managing bug reports and change requests is essential to controlling quality and maintenance. If you measure what you do, you can learn to do it better. You can’t change everything at once. Identify those changes that will yield the greatest benefits, and begin to implement them next Monday. Do what makes sense; don’t resort to dogma.

The Metrics Manifesto

The Metrics Manifesto
Author: Richard Seiersen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 111951536X

Security professionals are trained skeptics. They poke and prod at other people’s digital creations, expecting them to fail in unexpected ways. Shouldn’t that same skeptical power be turned inward? Shouldn’t practitioners ask: “How do I know that my enterprise security capabilities work? Are they scaling, accelerating, or slowing as the business exposes more value to more people and through more channels at higher velocities?” This is the start of the modern measurement mindset—the mindset that seeks to confront security with data. The Metrics Manifesto: Confronting Security with Data delivers an examination of security metrics with R, the popular open-source programming language and software development environment for statistical computing. This insightful and up-to-date guide offers readers a practical focus on applied measurement that can prove or disprove the efficacy of information security measures taken by a firm. The book’s detailed chapters combine topics like security, predictive analytics, and R programming to present an authoritative and innovative approach to security metrics. The author and security professional examines historical and modern methods of measurement with a particular emphasis on Bayesian Data Analysis to shed light on measuring security operations. Readers will learn how processing data with R can help measure security improvements and changes as well as help technology security teams identify and fix gaps in security. The book also includes downloadable code for people who are new to the R programming language. Perfect for security engineers, risk engineers, IT security managers, CISOs, and data scientists comfortable with a bit of code, The Metrics Manifesto offers readers an invaluable collection of information to help professionals prove the efficacy of security measures within their company.

Data Privacy

Data Privacy
Author: Nishant Bhajaria
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2022-02-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1617298999

Privacy engineering : why it's needed, how to scale it -- Understanding data and privacy -- Data classification -- Data inventory -- Data sharing -- The technical privacy review -- Data deletion -- Exporting user data : data subject access requests -- Building a consent management platform -- Closing security vulnerabilities -- Scaling, hiring, and considering regulations.

Core Software Security

Core Software Security
Author: James Ransome
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2018-10-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466560967

"... an engaging book that will empower readers in both large and small software development and engineering organizations to build security into their products. ... Readers are armed with firm solutions for the fight against cyber threats."—Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis. Carnegie Mellon University"... a must read for security specialists, software developers and software engineers. ... should be part of every security professional’s library." —Dr. Larry Ponemon, Ponemon Institute"... the definitive how-to guide for software security professionals. Dr. Ransome, Anmol Misra, and Brook Schoenfield deftly outline the procedures and policies needed to integrate real security into the software development process. ...A must-have for anyone on the front lines of the Cyber War ..." —Cedric Leighton, Colonel, USAF (Ret.), Cedric Leighton Associates"Dr. Ransome, Anmol Misra, and Brook Schoenfield give you a magic formula in this book - the methodology and process to build security into the entire software development life cycle so that the software is secured at the source! "—Eric S. Yuan, Zoom Video CommunicationsThere is much publicity regarding network security, but the real cyber Achilles’ heel is insecure software. Millions of software vulnerabilities create a cyber house of cards, in which we conduct our digital lives. In response, security people build ever more elaborate cyber fortresses to protect this vulnerable software. Despite their efforts, cyber fortifications consistently fail to protect our digital treasures. Why? The security industry has failed to engage fully with the creative, innovative people who write software. Core Software Security expounds developer-centric software security, a holistic process to engage creativity for security. As long as software is developed by humans, it requires the human element to fix it. Developer-centric security is not only feasible but also cost effective and operationally relevant. The methodology builds security into software development, which lies at the heart of our cyber infrastructure. Whatever development method is employed, software must be secured at the source. Book Highlights: Supplies a practitioner's view of the SDL Considers Agile as a security enabler Covers the privacy elements in an SDL Outlines a holistic business-savvy SDL framework that includes people, process, and technology Highlights the key success factors, deliverables, and metrics for each phase of the SDL Examines cost efficiencies, optimized performance, and organizational structure of a developer-centric software security program and PSIRT Includes a chapter by noted security architect Brook Schoenfield who shares his insights and experiences in applying the book’s SDL framework View the authors' website at http://www.androidinsecurity.com/