CHAPTER 2Security Fundamentals

We’ll Cover

image Input validation

image Attack surface reduction

image 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 ...

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