Security and Audit Logs

Changing subjects, let's look at a topic that is crucial to application security but will not be discussed elsewhere in this book (and is often overlooked in other books). If you are building a server application, one area of functionality, while not being one of the more glamorous areas of security programming, cannot be overlooked. This is the area of creating and writing security and audit logs. The creation of security and audit logs is crucial to the detection of security breaks and the pursuit of the guilty parties.

Why Do You Need Audit Logs?

Yes, writing security and audit logs is something that the operating system is already doing, so why do you need to concern yourself with building another audit log? If a user ...

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