Security for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET : Includes index

Learn the techniques that every developer who works with Visual Basic .NET should know about designing, developing, and developing security-enhanced applications for Microsoft Windows® and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Mike Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end guidance—covering application design, coding techniques, testing methods, and deployment strategies, along with direction on how to help secure the operating system and related infrastructure and services. Discover how to: * Design a security-enhanced architecture * Understand the most common vulnerabilities and how to write code to prevent them * Implement authentication and authorization techniques in your applications * Learn techniques for encryption, input validation, and exception handling * Add Windows, Forms, and Passport authentication to Web applications * Perform a security threat analysis and implement countermeasures * Think like a hacker—and uncover security holes * Create a setup for your application that implements security during installation * Lock down the Windows operating system, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL Server®, and Microsoft Access® databases

Learn the techniques that every developer who works with Visual Basic .NET should know about designing, developing, and developing security-enhanced applications for Microsoft Windows® and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Mike Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end guidance—covering application design, coding techniques, testing methods, and deployment strategies, along with direction on how to help secure the operating system and related infrastructure and services.

Discover how to:

• Design a security-enhanced architecture
• Understand the most common vulnerabilities and how to write code to prevent them
• Implement authentication and authorization techniques in your applications
• Learn techniques for encryption, input validation, and exception handling
• Add Windows, Forms, and Passport authentication to Web applications
• Perform a security threat analysis and implement countermeasures
• Think like a hacker—and uncover security holes
• Create a setup for your application that implements security during installation
• Lock down the Windows operating system, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL Server®, and Microsoft Access® databases

This is the first book every Visual Basic .NET programmer should read on security. This is an end-to-end guide, with clear prescriptive guidance for best practices, application design, and coding techniques for Windows and Web-based applications. This book makes writing secure applications easier than ever before. It features plain-language explanations of security terms illustrated with step-by-step code walk-throughs and sample files for both Visual Basic .NET 2002 and Visual Basic .NET 2003. Programmers will learn how to use encryption, role-based security, code access security, authentication, authorization along with techniques to help protect against common exploits. Also covered in this end-to-end guide are techniques for locking down Microsoft Windows, Internet Information Services and Microsoft SQL server. Readers will learn how to perform a security audit, how to test for security, how to design with security in mind, and security techniques for deploying Windows and Web-based applications. Learn essential security techniques for designing, developing, and deploying applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web. Visual Basic .NET experts Ed Robinson and Michael Bond introduce critical security concepts using straightforward language and step-by-step examples. You get clear, end-to-end guidance -- covering application design, coding techniques, testing methods, and deployment strategies, along with direction on how to help secure the operating system and related infrastructure and services.