Engineering · Software Engineering (Applied)
A topic within Software Engineering (Applied), itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
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Jerome H. Saltzer & Michael D. Schroeder
Sets out design principles for building secure systems — least privilege, fail-safe defaults, economy of mechanism — arguing security has to be built into a system's architecture rather than added as a checked feature.
Ross J. Anderson
Treats security failures as a systems-engineering problem produced by incentives and human factors as much as by broken cryptography, arguing protocols must be designed assuming they will be attacked in production.
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