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SQL Injection Attacks and Defense, 2nd Edition
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SQL Injection Attacks and Defense, 2nd Edition

by Justin Clarke-Salt
June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
16h 8m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 9

Platform level defenses

Justin Clarke

Solutions in this chapter:

• Using Runtime Protection

• Securing the Database

• Additional Deployment Considerations

Introduction

In Chapter 8, we discussed practices and defenses that you can employ at the code level to prevent SQL injection. In this chapter, we’ll shift our focus to platform-level defenses that detect, mitigate, and prevent SQL injection. A platform-level defense is any runtime enhancement or configuration change that can be made to increase the application’s overall security. The scope of protection we’ll cover in this chapter varies; however, as a whole the techniques we’ll discuss can help you to achieve a multi-layered security architecture.

First we’ll examine runtime ...

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