Writing Secure Code

Writing Secure Code offers practical insights into secure design, secure coding, and testing techniques, many of which are not documented elsewhere. It will give you a richer understanding of what it takes to build secure applications. Michael and David are, respectively, members of the Secure Windows Initiative and the Trustworthy Computing Security Team at Microsoft. They have witnessed firsthand the sometimes basic coding mistakes that undermine product security, and their projects have helped us significantly improve how we designed and implemented security in products such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Their goal in writing this book is to pass on to you, the developer community, everything Microsoft has learned.