Abstract
In this chapter, we consider the various ways in which we might secure our applications. We go over the vulnerabilities common to the software development process, including buffer overflows, race conditions, input validation attacks, authentication attacks, authorization attacks, and cryptographic attacks, and how we might mitigate these by following secure coding guidelines. We talk about Web security, the areas of concern on both the client and server sides of the technology. We introduce database security and cover protocol issues, unauthenticated access, arbitrary code execution, and privilege escalation and the measures we might take to mitigate them. Lastly, we examine security tools from an application perspective, including sniffers such as Wireshark, fuzzing tools including some developed by Microsoft, and Web application analysis tools such as Burp Suite in order to better secure our applications.
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