Security for Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about the discovery and prevention process needed to fortify your application against attack. The process involves:

• Reviewing your application design to identify threats

• Focusing your attention on the most critical issues by prioritizing the threats

• Changing features or altering the design of your application to address the most important threats

• Establishing a means for identifying potential attacks or attacks that have occurred

If an attack occurs, you should:

• Execute a response plan created ahead of time (before the application ships).

• Fix the problem.

• Redeploy the application.

• Apply the lessons learned from the attack to prevent future attacks.

To more quickly respond to and remedy an attack, you should design ...