Course Description
Discover how to protect your applications from attacks and bad data! This course shows you how to identify and defend your C/C++ applications from potential risks, and how to control user input to reduce the possibility of bad data entry.
Learning Objectives
Risks in C/C++ Applications
- start the course
- identify potential risks to C/C++ UI applications
- describe what buffer overflows are and how to limit their impact
- recall how to prevent buffer overflows in C/C++ applications
Defense against Attacks
- describe what code injection attacks are and how to mitigate them in C/C++ applications
- identify how to prevent formatted string vulnerabilities
- recognize how to prevent DLL hijacking in C/C++ applications
- use exceptions in C/C++ applications
User Input
- specify how to handle bad data in your C/C++ applications
- work with regular expressions to help with input validation
- recognize how to constrain user input to prevent the input of bad data
Practice: Defense and User Input
- use defensive coding techniques to handle user input