In early 2004, Amit Yoran, then the director of the National Cyber Security Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, announced that about 95 percent of software security bugs come from 19 “common, well-understood” programming mistakes. We are not going to insult your intelligence and explain the need for secure software in today’s interconnected world—we assume you know the reasons—but we will outline how to find and remedy these common security defects in your code.

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