Microsoft .NET lets you build complex applications quickly and easily, but its selection of controls does have notable gaps. Fortunately, you can address part of this deficiency yourself by building ...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...

Despite numerous articles from Microsoft regarding the inadequacy of using .NET’s own user input validation classes, it has been suggested that many sites solely rely upon those classes. This makes ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Standard security practices are the baseline for any product, and even the most junior software ...

We recently asked security maven Steve Orrin to tell us some of the tenets of secure coding today. While this was once an administrator's main look-see, it has become part of the developer's job in ...

What is more important than Web security? No matter how advanced your firewall, how compartmentalized your network and how strong your encryption, it all comes crashing down if your Web applications ...