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C Secure Coding Rules: Past, Present, and Future

Article
In this article, Robert Seacord offers a history of secure coding work and provides details about the ISO/IEC TS 17961 C Secure Coding Rules.
Publisher

Pearson Education, Informit

Abstract

CERT’s Secure Coding Initiative has been developing secure coding standards since 2006. Expert programmer Robert C. Seacord, author of Secure Coding in C and C++, Second Edition, offers a history of this effort, provides detailed information about the ISO/IEC TS 17961 C Secure Coding Rules Technical Specification currently making its way through the standardization process, and discusses the future of these coding standards.