Writing Secure Code

Intermediate - Advanced Level Users.

Security mistakes by software architects, designers and developers are an ongoing plague that costs businesses millions of dollars every year when malicious intruders attack interconnected applications, steal credit-card numbers, and deface Web sites. This book offers a ready cure.

This fact-filled, eye-opening title covers the major aspects of creating secure applications through the entire development process, from secure design, to writing robust code that can easily withstand an attack, to testing applications for security vulnerabilities.

The book's short, easily digested chapters can provide software designers, architects, developers and testers with the training, theory and techniques they need to take the right actions to ensure security.