Essentials of Software Engineering, 5th Edition

14.1 Security and Software Engineering

Today, the functionalities provided by software applications are moving to the Internet as online business services, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is rapidly gaining popularity. (See Finch [2006] and Zimmermann et al. [2005] in the References and Suggested Readings section.) As computer networks have become more pervasive—almost every software system is connected one way or another to the Internet—the opportunities for malicious users to exploit errors to gain unauthorized access to a system has also increased tremendously. At any moment, there is a high probability that somebody is thinking of how to hack into a system. As professionals, we need to design software to withstand these attacks. ...