In this book, Jim Manico and August Detlefsen tackle security educationfrom a technical perspective and bring their wealth of industry knowledgeand experience to application designers. A significant amount of thought wasgiven to include the most useful and relevant security content for designers todefend their applications. This is not a book about security theories—it’s thehard lessons learned from those who have been exploited, turned intoactionable items for application designers and condensed into print.

One of the best things I enjoy about the field of security is that it’s smalland still possible to reach out and touch your heroes. Jim and August are myheroes, and it’s an honor and privilege to be their technical editor on thisproject. The hallmarks of true experts and expert teams are confident but soft-spoken, good listeners, secure in their abilities, and not afraid to explore theideas of others. Teams imbuing such qualities produce results like no other,and working in this environment is educational for everyone. Working on thisproject with Jim and August was a tremendous privilege. It’s my sinceresthope you enjoy this book as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you.