text/reference on computer security?

[Vin McLellan]

HI John,

"Writing Secure Code," Second Edition -- by Michael Howard and David 
LeBlanc, of Microsoft -- comes very highly recommended and seems to live up 
to its promise. I'm told this book is now mandatory reading for developers 
at Microsoft (and a lot of other places).  See : 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735617228/qid=1041533132/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7890947-4795066?v=glance&s=books>

You might also want to refer him or her to Ross Anderson's "Security 
Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems," and a 
popular tome from Viega and McGraw: "Building Secure Software.

See Anderson's reviews at: 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471389226/ref=pd_rhf_p_2/103-7890947-4795066?v=glance&s=books#product-details>

See Viega and McGraw at: 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/020172152X/ref=pd_rhf_f_1/103-7890947-4795066?v=glance&s=books&st=*#product-details>

Suerte,
         _Vin

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At 1/2/03, you wrote:
>A friend asks if there's any good books on security for programmers.  Two
>years ago Michael Johnson was working on one, and it's even in Macmillan's
>catalog, but it doesn't look like it actually came out.  Any other
>suggestions?
>
>Regards,
>John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
>Dummies",
>Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer 
>Commissioner
>"A book is a sneeze." - E.B. White, on the writing of Charlotte's Web
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>Can any of you recommend a good text or reference on computer security?
>I'm looking for something targeted at the system/application developer
>more than the network administrator, the kind of book you wish more people
>at Microsoft had read.


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its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who
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