The Software Vulnerability Guide (Programming Series) (Charles River Media Programming) [Paperback]

Herbert H Thompson (Author), Scott G Chase (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1584503580 | ISBN-13: 978-1584503583 | Publication Date: June 3, 2005 | Edition: 1

In today's market, secure software is a must for consumers. Many developers, however, are not familiar with the techniques needed to produce secure code or detect existing vulnerabilities. The Software Vulnerability Guide helps developers and testers better understand the underlying security flaws in software and provides an easy-to-use reference for security bugs. Most of these bugs (and the viruses, worms, and exploits that derive from them) start out as programmer mistakes. With this guide, professional programmers and testers will learn how to find, fix, and prevent these vulnerabilities before their software reaches the market. Detailed explanations and examples are provided for each of the vulnerabilities, as well as a summary sheet that can be referenced quickly. Tools that make it easier to recognize and prevent vulnerabilities are also explored, and source code snippets, commentary, and techniques are provided in easy-to-read sidebars. This guide is a must have for today's software developers.

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About the Author

Herbert Thomas is the Director of Security Technology at Security Innovation LLC and serves on the graduate faculty of the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the co-author of How to Break Sofware Security: Effective Techniques for Security Testing and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Scott Chase is a Security Architect at SI Government Solutions, where he manages key research projects for the US government. He has also worked as a university researcher in information security and as a software tester in industry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 354 pages
• Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (June 3, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584503580
• ISBN-13: 978-1584503583
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #633,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very concise and helpful, December 15, 2005

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C. Madden "Blake Madden" (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Software Vulnerability Guide (Programming Series) (Charles River Media Programming) (Paperback)

I've maybe read three or four books on the subject of software security and this is the best so far. Very concise and well organized and covers just about every facet of software vulnerabilities that I've ever heard of. Very helpful too because at the end of each chapter it gives detailed advice on how to avoid the vulnerability that they discussed. Also, the CD comes with some nice tools and source code. I definitely learned a lot from this book and highly recommend it to both web application and desktop application developers.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Microsoft MVP 2005 - Visual C# gives this a big thumbs up!, July 20, 2005

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Robbe D. Morris "Robbe Morris" (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Software Vulnerability Guide (Programming Series) (Charles River Media Programming) (Paperback)

If you consider yourself a solid developer but know you probably don't give the security of your software/databases as much attention as you should, then you need to get your hands on The Software Vulnerability Guide.

Unlike a lot of other security books, this one isn't full of a bunch of vagure generalities. It gives you solid details on some of the most common (and perhaps some less common) holes that exist in the software you just released. The information contained in each useful chapter is easily digestable by beginners.

Buy the book and spare yourself the embarrassment from some twenty something who stole some script off the web and deleted all the data in your intranet application.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended if you care about Quality Software, February 10, 2010

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Unsecure software is always poorly written/low quality software. This book will help you identify problems and provide the insight necessary to write higher quality code.