Chapter 11. Security
In the previous chapter, we saw some of the most applied and used principles about software design, design patterns, and the way they are implemented or can be used in the .NET Framework.
In this chapter, we're going to study security issues and recommendations; or measures to take in order to build and deploy secure applications. We'll also look at how these security problems affect .NET applications.
Our starting point will be the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) proposal. OWASP is a security initiative that intends to offer, with a certain frequency, the latest on cyber security in terms of the types of possible flows, offering information about the best methods to deal with threats, prevention measures, and so on.
We'll focus our analysis on the definitions and prevention measures for the top 10 security threats published by the OWASP organization, their implications for the developer, and in case it applies, how these measures can be implemented in .NET...
