Some “Secure Programming” Exercises for an Introductory Programming Class - Information Assurance and Security Education and Training Access content directly
Conference Papers Year : 2013

Some “Secure Programming” Exercises for an Introductory Programming Class

Matt Bishop
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 983911

Abstract

Ideally, computer security should be an integral part of all programming courses. Beginning programming classes pose a particular challenge, because the students are learning basic concepts of programming. Thus, teaching them about buffer overflows as security problems, requiring an explanation of concepts such as “smashing the stack,” will confuse students more than motivate them to check array bounds. Advanced concepts such as race conditions require more background than the students have, or will have, when taking introductory programming classes. An alternate approach is to teach the underlying concepts of robust programming; preventing crashes or errors is central to such a course. This paper presents some exercises that illustrate this approach, and some thoughts on what constitutes “secure programming”.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
978-3-642-39377-8_26_Chapter.pdf (290.42 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origin : Files produced by the author(s)
Loading...

Dates and versions

hal-01463642 , version 1 (09-02-2017)

Licence

Attribution

Identifiers

Cite

Matt Bishop. Some “Secure Programming” Exercises for an Introductory Programming Class. 8th World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE), Jul 2009, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil. pp.226-232, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-39377-8_26⟩. ⟨hal-01463642⟩
86 View
140 Download

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More