Who Should Read This Guide

This guide is for anyone concerned with planning, building, deploying, or operating Web applications. The guide contains essential information for designers, developers, system administrators, and security analysts.

Designers will learn how to avoid costly security mistakes and how to make appropriate design choices early in the product development life cycle. Developers will learn how to implement defensive coding techniques and build secure code. System administrators will learn how to methodically secure servers and networks, and security analysts will learn how to perform security assessments.