Security for Software Engineers

ISBN-13: 9780367656812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 345 str.

James N. Helfrich

Opis

Society has the need for secure software tools. Unfortunately, many of these tools are not built with security in mind or are not developed with attention to security issues. If all software engineers were fluent in the principles described in this book, security breaches and malware outbreaks would be a less common topic in our news today.

Spis treści

Introduction to Security 0: Security for Software Engineers 1: Roles Unit 1: Attack Vectors 2: Classification of Attacks 3: Software Weapons 4: Social Engineering Unit 2: Code Hardening 5: Command Injection 6: Script Injection 7: Memory Injection 8: Threat Modeling 9: Mitigation  Unit 3: Privacy 10: Authentication 11: Access Control 12: Encryption Appendices A: Arrays B: Function Pointers C: V-Tables D: Integers E: The Callstack F: The Heap G: Further Reading H: Works Cited I: Glossary J: Index

O autorze

James Helfrich earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and his PhD from Idaho State University. After working as a Software Development Engineer and a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Office family of products, he has been teaching Computer Science at BYU-Idaho since 2006. His specialties include software development, humancomputer interaction, and security.

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