Chapter 9. Build Security
Philosophy: Never depend on security through obscurity. | ||
| --Michael Howard, author of Writing Secure Code | ||
If you are considering or have considered outsourcing your development, one of the first questions you will probably ask yourself is, “How will I secure our company’s intellectual property (IP) from potentially malicious offsite developers in the United States or abroad?” I answer those questions in the following pages, using Microsoft’s methods as an example.
Even if you don’t plan to outsource your development or have developers work offsite, unless you’re writing freeware or running a software development charity, this subject is important to your software business. It’s such a delicate subject that I was told that ...
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