Writing Secure Code

By David LeBlanc and Michael Howard

Keep black-hat hackers at bay with the tips and techniques in this entertaining, eye-opening book Developers will learn how to padlock their applications throughout the entire development process from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735617228
• ISBN13: 9780735617223
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 798 Pages
• Weight: 3.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book if you're serious about writing secure code

I got this book for free from Microsoft, because our company became a Microsoft Partner. I must admit that at first I was a little bit sceptical about it, because afterall this book is published by Microsoft and they have this reputation of selling rather insecure software themselves. But after reading the first few sections I knew it was going to be a very good read.The book explains in very clear language almost every aspect...

A Must Read for Todays Developer

I bought this book after the *Bill Gates* email came out about Microsoft being serious about security. I figured that when he sends email like this to the company, it's important. And when **he recommends this book** in the email, it's something worth looking at. It is - Writing Secure Code is great. It's an easy read, full of great design, development and testing principles and ideas. The first couple of chapters revolve...

If you write software then buy this book!

I bought this after reading other reviews, and like many of them I found this book worth every cent. The three manjor portions of the book: secure design, secure coding and security testing are really well explained. In fact, I have never seen any other material in any book on security design and testing. And to those that thing there are no good SSL examples, I have two comments, (a) yes, there is material in the book on...

Best book I have read about secure software

Too many books talk about how to secure a network, and discuss network-based attacks, but this book is different; it covers how to design, build and test the code at the end of the pipe - the application software.The book is complete in its explanation of how to make sure your application code, be it web-based or otherwise, is secured from attack. I learned a great deal from this book, and, based on code and design reviews...

Great book!

after reading the secure web app chapter, i rushed out and fixed about seven errors in my web-based finance app. the security bugs were bugs i didn't know i had! we've also built cross-site scripting tests based on the commentary in the testing chapter.GREAT BOOK!