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Software Engineering for Absolute Beginners: Your Guide to Creating Software Products
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Software Engineering for Absolute Beginners: Your Guide to Creating Software Products

by Nico Loubser
January 2021
Beginner
348 pages
5h 53m
English
Apress
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© Nico Loubser 2021
N. LoubserSoftware Engineering for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6622-9_10

10. Security

Nico Loubser1  
(1)
London, UK
 

A very important aspect of writing code is securing it, and in this chapter, we will look at some ways to do so. The aim of this chapter is not to teach you how to break into systems, but to make you aware of the different attack angles and how to protect against them. There are a lot of people out there who will try and break into your system, for various reasons. In contrast to popular belief, people who break into systems are not called hackers. They are actually called crackers. As a software developer, a large portion of the task of securing the system will fall on your shoulders. Chances ...

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