Overview
The .NET Framework offers new, more effective ways to secure your Web and LAN-based applications. .NET Development Security Solutions uses detailed, code-intensive examples—lots of them—to teach you the right techniques for most scenarios you're likely to encounter. This is not an introduction to security; it's an advanced cookbook that shows experienced programmers how to meet tough security challenges:
- Recognize and avoid dangerous traps—including holes in .NET
- Work fluently with both role-based and code access security
- Maximize the security advantages of policies and code groups
- Promote security using Active Directory
- Secure data with .NET cryptographic techniques
- Meet the toughest LAN security requirements
- Tackle special security issues associated with Web and wireless applications
- Implement Win32 API security in managed applications
Uniting this instruction is a coherent, cohesive mindset that will help you take the human factor into account at every step. You'll become technically proficient with all the tools at your disposal—and, at the same time, you'll learn to make your solutions more powerful by crafting them in ways that dovetail with users' needs—and foibles—and anticipate cracker exploits.
Synopsis
Security is completely different in the .NET framework than it was in older versions of Visual Studio. This Official DevX title from Sybex, leads you through those differences, helps you understand the new rules for .NET security, and helps you fix problems created by holes in the .NET security by using Visual Basic.NET and Visual C#.NET. Perfect for intermediate and advanced .NET application developers who already know Visual Basic.NET or Visual C# .NET, .NET Development Security Solutions emphasizes code over theory and offers real practical solutions to vexing problems. Expert author John Mueller covers the gamut of security-related issues for desktop, server, Web, and wireless environments. More specifically, he focuses on: Avoiding common errors and traps; .NET rule-based security techniques; Validation and verification issues; .NET cryptographic techniques; Web server security; Securing XML and Web pages; Wireless device security.