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Building secure software : how to avoid security problems the right way / John Viega, Gary McGraw.

Author/creator Viega, John
Other author/creatorMcGraw, Gary, 1966-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBoston : Addison-Wesley, ©2002.
Descriptionxxx, 493 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Addison-Wesley professional computing series
Addison-Wesley professional computing series. ^A299224
Contents It's All about the Software -- Dealing with Widespread Security Failures -- Bugtraq -- CERT Advisories -- RISKS Digest -- Technical Trends Affecting Software Security -- The 'ilities -- What Is Security? -- Isn't That Just Reliability? -- Penetrate and Patch Is Bad -- On Art and Engineering -- Security Goals -- Prevention -- Traceability and Auditing -- Monitoring -- Privacy and Confidentiality -- Multilevel Security -- Anonymity -- Authentication -- Integrity -- Know Your Enemy: Common Software Security Pitfalls -- Software Project Goals -- Managing Software Security Risk -- An Overview of Software Risk Management for Security -- The Role of Security Personnel -- Software Security Personnel in the Life Cycle -- Deriving Requirements -- Risk Assessment -- Design for Security -- Implementation -- Security Testing -- A Dose of Reality -- Getting People to Think about Security -- Software Risk Management in Practice -- When Development Goes Astray -- When Security Analysis Goes Astray -- The Common Criteria -- Selecting Technologies -- Choosing a Language -- Choosing a Distributed Object Platform -- CORBA -- DCOM -- EJB and RMI -- Choosing an Operating System -- Authentication Technologies -- Host-Based Authentication -- Physical Tokens -- Biometric Authentication -- Cryptographic Authentication -- Defense in Depth and Authentication -- On Open Source and Closed Source -- Security by Obscurity -- Reverse Engineering -- Code Obfuscation -- Security for Shrink-Wrapped Software -- Security by Obscurity Is No Panacea.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Viega, John. Building secure software. Boston : Addison-Wesley, ©2002
Issued in other formOnline version: Viega, John. Building secure software. Boston : Addison-Wesley, ©2002
LCCN 2001046055
ISBN020172152X
ISBN9780201721522
ISBN0321774957
ISBN9780321774958

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Joyner General Stacks QA76.76.D47 V857 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold