Visible to the public The Impact of Defensive Programming on I/O Cybersecurity Attacks

TitleThe Impact of Defensive Programming on I/O Cybersecurity Attacks
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsTeto, Joel Kamdem, Bearden, Ruth, Lo, Dan Chia-Tien
Conference NameProceedings of the SouthEast Conference
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-5024-2
Keywordsacm proceedings, Cross Site Scripting, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Human Behavior, human factor, human factors, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, text tagging, Word
AbstractThis paper presents principles of Defensive Programming and examines the growing concern that these principles are not effectively incorporated into Computer Science and related computing degree programs' curricula. To support this concern, Defensive Programming principles are applied to a case study - Cross-site Scripting cybersecurity attacks. This paper concludes that Defensive Programming plays an important role in preventing these attacks and should thus be more aggressively integrated into CS courses such as Programming, Algorithms, Databases, Computer Architecture and Organization, and Computer Networks.
URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3077286.3077571
DOI10.1145/3077286.3077571
Citation Keyteto_impact_2017