A Practical Handbook for Secure Development Leadership

Forget dry academic manuals and checklist-heavy compliance guides. Tactical AppSec: A Champions' Field Guide is your hands-on playbook, crafted specifically for developers and champions like you—those who write, review, deploy, and secure code. It’s designed to meet you where you are, helping you tackle real-world security challenges with practical, actionable solutions.

You don’t need to be a security expert or memorize every CVE. What you need is a solid understanding of common threats, tools that work in your environment, and the confidence to advocate for secure development practices that stick. Tactical AppSec gives you the knowledge and strategies to integrate security seamlessly into your workflow and empower your team to build safer, more resilient applications.

What’s Inside?

• Understand the Threats That Matter: Cover the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25, and get a clear understanding of what to look out for on the threat landscape.

• Build Threat Models that Actually Help: Forget documentation theater. Learn how to create actionable, useful threat models.

• Master Secure Code Reviews: Go beyond syntax and learn how to do real code reviews that improve security.

• Leverage Powerful Tools: Learn how to use SAST, DAST, IAST, and RASP—without bogging down your pipeline.

• Lead with Influence: Being a Security Champion isn’t just about knowledge. Discover how to spread the message, teach, and get buy-in across your entire team.

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Each chapter is packed with practical advice, step-by-step guides, and tools you can start using immediately.