Designing Secure Software

by Michael Howard, David LeBlanc

Two software security experts show developers how to eliminate design vulnerabilities from the startSoftware design errors can lead to the worst security flaws and the most expensive to remedy. This hands-on guide demonstrates why security is important to designers, the fundamental principles of software security, and how to establish the often unspecified security requirements for an application.Designing Secure Software provides concrete examples of how to design an application to implement security, and detailed examples of common application architectures. The book calls out specific secure design principles, offering examples of successes as well as failures, and gives an overview of the technologies and techniques used to implement each principle.

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

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software security expert from Microsoft