Threat-Driven Software Development

Are you ready to build online services that can stand up to real adversaries? Threat-Driven Software Development is your practical guide to designing, coding, and operating systems through the lens of how attackers actually work. Written by Microsoft security leaders Michael Howard, Sherrod DeGrippo, Shawn Hernan, and Lee Holmes, this hands-on book shows developers, architects, and IT professionals how to turn threat intelligence into daytoday engineering decisions. Youll learn to prioritize with a risk register, harden software supply chains and engineering systems, protect identities and secrets, and contain blast radius with isolation and network guardrails. With concise, storydriven chapters; featuring real incidents; youll deploy honeypots and decoys, instrument services for highsignal telemetry, strengthen red/blue team response, and leverage AI safely on both offense and defense. Clear, actionable, and fieldtested, this book will help you move beyond bug fixing to measurable resilience against modern threat actors. Dont just react to the next attack; get ahead of it.