etween project deadline pressure and user demand for the latest software features, security often isn’t the highest priority for development teams. Many times, eliminating vulnerabilities is seen as a task
his essential book for all software developers?regardless of platform, language, or type of application?outlines the “19 deadly sins” of software security and shows how to fix each one. Best-selling authors
ingle sign-on (SSO) is a very hot topic. Businesses in every industry are eager to integrate legacy systems into newer applications, and SSO can alleviate the headaches users experience when
he Web Services Interoperability organization (WSI) has developed a whole stable of standards upon which Web services commerce and communication can be executed securely. These standards are in great demand
he OpenBSD team prides itself on producing one of the most?if not the most?secure operating systems in the world. If you are concerned about keeping the sensitive data within your
ome of the grubbiest ethical quandaries in IT never quite get resolved; we make progress, we debate, we set guidelines, but burying such issues for good?with accepted industry policy?is a
ost Web hosting providers block port 3306 (the MySQL server port) at the firewall to prevent outside access. As a result, many MySQL developers and administrators can’t access and manage
an Francisco, Calif.?”Ninety-nine percent of the people want to write secure code,” said panelist Ira Winkler, at the Secure Software Forum last week, “they just don’t know how.” Winkler, Global
art 1 of this article explained IDS and examined the most popular open source IDS solutions. Part 2 demonstrates some common, practical uses for these solutions. The first example is