Hardening Code

Marci Brandt (Portland, Oregon) has been creating reliable and secure software for more than a decade. Her past projects include sensitive and mission critical software for the US Government, and a multitude of Fortune 500 companies. Technical Editors: Michael Howard, Microsoft Corp., author of Writing Secure Code (see first book under competition above); Nishchal Bhalla, Principal Consultant Foundstone, Inc. Strategic Security; Series Editor: Roberta Bragg (Grain Valley, MO), CISSP, Security+, ETI-Client Server, Certified Technical Trainer, IBM Certified Trainer, DB2-UDB, Citrix Certified Administrator, MCSE: Security., has been the "Security Advisor" columnist for MCP magazine for 5 years, is a "Security Expert" for search Win2000.com, writes the Security Watch newsletter for 101 Communications.

Part I - Do This Now!; Chapter 1 - Checklist of the Top 10 Things To Do First!; Part II - Take It From the Top - Systematically; Hardening; Chapter 2 - Hardening The Planning Process- Things to Remember Before You Begin; Chapter 3 - Chapter 3-Hardening Requirements Definitions; Chapter 4 - Designing Reliable and Secure Software: Design Methodologies; Chapter 5 - Designing Reliable and Secure Software: Data Protection; Chapter 6 - Designing Reliable and Secure Software: Securing External Software; Chapter 7 - Set and Follow (Secure) Development Standards; Chapter 8 - Test, Test, Test!; Part III - Once is Never Enough - A Maintenance Plan for Keeping Your Software Strong; Chapter 9 - How Can Maintenance Go Wrong?; Chapter 10 - How to Keep Your Software Strong; Part IV - How to Succeed at Hardening Code (The Soft Issues); Chapter 11 - Selling Developers, Software Engineers and Management on Hardening Code; Part V - Appendices; Appendix A - Hardening Tools (System, Development, Requirements Analysis, and Testing Tools); Appendix B - Coding Standards