December 2011
Beginner
384 pages
9h 38m
English
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CHAPTER 2Security Fundamentals
We’ll Cover
Input validation
Attack surface reduction
Classifying and prioritizing threats
In this chapter, we’ll be taking an early look at two of the high-level security principles that we’ll be returning to again and again over the course of the book: input validation and attack surface reduction. If you do nothing else for your application in terms of security but these two activities (not that we recommend doing ...