Chapter 3. Program Security
In this chapter:
Programming errors with security implications—buffer overflows, incomplete access control
Malicious code—viruses, worms, Trojan horses
Program development controls against malicious code and vulnerabilities—software engineering principles and practices
Controls to protect against program flaws in execution—operating system support and administrative controls
In the first two chapters, we learned about the need for computer security and we studied encryption, a fundamental tool in implementing many kinds of security controls. In this chapter, we begin to study how to apply security in computing. We start with why we need security at the program level and how we can achieve it.
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