Discover the best practices for writing secure code and stopping malicious hackers in their tracks direct from the top security experts at Microsoft!

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 designing secure applications to writing robust code that can withstand repeated attacks to testing applications for security flaws. Easily digested chapters reveal proven principles strategies and coding techniques. The authors two battle-scarred veterans who have solved some of the industry's toughest security problems provide sample code in several languages. This edition includes updated information about threat modeling designing a security process international issues file-system issues adding privacy to applications and performing security code reviews. It also includes enhanced coverage of buffer overruns Microsoft® .NET security and Microsoft ActiveX® development plus practical checklists for developers testers and program managers.