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Introduce Kevin and his ability to project himself into the computer world to visualize the code he is developing. |
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We meet Kevin and his co-workers, the development team at Contoso. |
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Kevin and his team get a briefing on the importance of developing secure code, but they take it less than seriously. |
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Kevin and his pals discuss security, but Kevin obviously sees it as less important than writing elegant features for his application. |
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Kevin discovers an intruder while working late on his application. |
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Malware intruders exploit security weaknesses to launch an attack! |
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Strip 7: The Legion of Malware Strikes. The intruders open the door to a full-fledged attack by the Trojan, the Bandwidth Hog, SpamBot, and the shambling armies of BotNet Drones. |
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Strip 8: Helpless in the Face of Doom! Kevin's meager security countermeasures are no match for the onslaught of the Legion of Malware. |
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Strip 9: Crawling from the Wreckage. Kevin has to face his boss and coworkers and tell them the application has been compromised, just weeks from the official launch. His boss tells him to seek out the SDL to gain the skills he needs to shore up the application. |
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Kevin goes back online and encounters Vigil, the leader of the SDL, an elite squad of security specialists who turn developers into black-belt security coding ninjas. |
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Vigil teaches Kevin the arts of threat analysis, including threat modeling and attack surface reduction. |
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Strip 12: The nForcement Imperative. nForcer gives Kevin an entertaining lesson in using tools and countermeasures, including the potent Static Analyzer, to keep enemies at bay. |
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Strip 13: Think Like the Enemy. Dood schools Kevin on the dark arts of security science, drawing on his own checkered past as a reformed hacker. |
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After undergoing a final challenge to face his fears, Kevin becomes a security superhero. |
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Applying his new skills, Kevin rebuilds his application to withstand the onslaught from the Malware villains. |
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Strip 16: A New Sheriff in Town: The Malware villains find that Kevin, armed with his SDL training, is no longer so easy to beat! |
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Contoso is under attack. Villains from the League of Malware are tearing down the newly constructed walls of an application in development—threatening the company's security and success. Can one man stop the destruction and save the project in time? Find out, in The Amazing Adventures of Kevlarr and the SDL.
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