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About the Author
John Viega, Founder and Chief Scientist of Secure Software (www.securesoftware.com), is a well-known security expert, and coauthor of Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley) and Network Security with OpenSSL (O'Reilly). John is responsible for numerous software security tools, and is the original author of Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager. He holds a B.A. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. Mr. Viega is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) and a Senior Policy Researcher at the Cyberspace Policy Institute, and he serves on the Technical Advisory Board for the Open Web Applications Security Project. He also founded a Washington, DC area security interest group that conducts monthly lectures presented by leading experts in the field. He is the author or coauthor of nearly 80 technical publications, including numerous refereed research papers and trade articles. Matt Messier, Director of Engineering at Secure Software, is a security authority who has been programming for nearly two decades. Besides coauthoring Network Security with OpenSSL, Matt coauthored RATS, EGADS, and the Safe C String Library, an Entropy Gathering and Distribution System used for securely seeding pseudo random number generators. Prior to joining Secure Software, Matt worked for IBM and Lotus, on source and assembly level debugging techniques, and operating system concepts.
Reviews
"This is a book that's long overdue and makes for an interesting and deeply technical read on a topic that we should all core about more. Yes, it's limited to C and C++ readers, but with the majority of key applications being written in these languages that's where the biggest benefit can be had - give the sample chapter a read, and you'll soon be on your way to the books store to buy the rest of it." "A powerful and initially somewhat scary book that will quickly get you thinking about security while you program - as opposed to as an afterthought." - Paul Hudson, LinuxFormat, Christmas 03 - Rating 10/10 - Top Stuff Award
Book Information
ISBN 9780596003944
Author John Viega
Format Paperback
Page Count 790
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media