Security for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Learn the techniques that every developer who works with Visual Basic .NET should know about designing, developing, and developing security-enhanced applications for Microsoft Windows® and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Mike Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end ...

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Overview

Learn the techniques that every developer who works with Visual Basic .NET should know about designing, developing, and developing security-enhanced applications for Microsoft Windows® and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Mike Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end guidance—covering application design, coding techniques, testing methods, and deployment strategies, along with direction on how to help secure the operating system and related infrastructure and services.


Discover how to:


  • Design a security-enhanced architecture
  • Understand the most common vulnerabilities and how to write code to prevent them
  • Implement authentication and authorization techniques in your applications
  • Learn techniques for encryption, input validation, and exception handling
  • Add Windows, Forms, and Passport authentication to Web applications
  • Perform a security threat analysis and implement countermeasures
  • Think like a hacker—and uncover security holes
  • Create a setup for your application that implements security during installation
  • Lock down the Windows operating system, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL Server®, and Microsoft Access® databases

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780735661011
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press
  • Publication date: 1/31/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 416
  • File size: 8 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction
Pt. I Development Techniques
1 Encryption 3
2 Role-Based Authorization 27
3 Code-Access Security 45
4 ASP.NET Authentication 75
5 Securing Web Applications 99
Pt. II Ensuring Hack-Resistant Code
6 Application Attacks and How to Avoid Them 121
7 Validating Input 157
8 Handling Exceptions 183
9 Testing for Attack-Resistant Code 197
Pt. III Deployment and Configuration
10 Securing Your Application for Deployment 225
11 Locking Down Windows, Internet Information Services, and .NET 269
12 Securing Databases 283
Pt. IV Enterprise-Level Security
13 Ten Steps to Designing a Secure Enterprise System 303
14 Threats - Analyze, Prevent, Detect, and Respond 319
15 Threat Analysis Exercise 337
16 Future Trends 349
A Guide to the Code Samples 363
B Contents of SecurityLibrary.vb 375
Index 379

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