June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 10m
English
Content preview from Secure Coding: Principles and Practices
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A.3. Web Sites and Online Resources
Of the hundreds (now, perhaps, thousands) of sites on the Web that address some facet of secure coding, the ones we have listed below are those we recommend you check first.
AusCERT Secure Programming Checklist
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ftp://ftp.auscert.org.au/pub/auscert/papers/secure_programming_checklist
Secure programming information from the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team, AusCERT.
FreeBSD Security Information
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http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html
Security tips specific to the FreeBSD operating system.
Institute for Security and Open Methodologies
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http://www.isecom.org/ (formerly www.Ideahamster.org/)
Contains, among other things, a repository of secure programming guidelines and testing methodologies. Included in this set is "The Secure Programming Standards Methodology Manual" by Victor A. Rodriguez.
International Systems Security Engineering Association (ISSEA)
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A not-for-profit professional organization "dedicated to the adoption of systems security engineering as a defined and measurable discipline."
Packetstorm Tutorials List
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http://packetstormsecurity.nl/programming-tutorials/
A useful list of tutorials on various programming languages, testing methodologies, and more.
Secure, Efficient, and Easy C Programming
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http://irccrew.org/~cras/security/c-guide.html
A useful "howto" document by Timo Sirainen with tips and examples of secure C coding.
Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
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