Video: SPI Dynamics Announces the Addison-Wesley Professional Digital Short Cut Secure ASP.NET AJAX Development Written by Jason Schmitt, the Company's Group Product Manager and AJAX Development Expert
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Highlights Coding Best Practices and Security Challenges to Demystify Secure AJAX Development
ATLANTA, March 19 / -- S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc. (www.spidynamics.com), the leading provider of web application security testing software and services, today announced the new release of the digital Short Cut titled, Secure ASP.NET AJAX Development authored by the company's Group Product Manager, Jason Schmitt, who oversees strategy for SPI Dynamics' developer and quality assurance security testing solutions. The digital Short Cut PDF published by Addison-Wesley Professional, an imprint of Pearson Technology Group, highlights the security challenges of AJAX web applications and best practices for secure web application development with AJAX technologies. Short Cuts are concise PDF documents about a cutting-edge technology that shows great promise, or an existing technology that has reached the "tipping point" and is about to take off.
SPI Dynamics has maintained aggressive research on AJAX for several years to ensure the entire SPI Dynamics' product line addresses the security of this rapidly growing technology. The release of Secure ASP.NET AJAX Development is another example of the company's abundant expertise in the area of AJAX security and cutting-edge technologies that define the future of web applications and Web 2.0. Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX technologies, commonly known by the codename "Atlas," and other AJAX frameworks are changing the way web applications look and are developed, but web developers are often unaware of the security risks they are introducing into their applications with these emerging technologies.
AJAX fundamentally changes the user experience and server interaction in web applications, so developers may be taking otherwise secure applications and opening up new angles of attack for hackers. Secure ASP.NET AJAX Development outlines the increased security risk inherent with AJAX technologies and addresses how developers can use Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX to implement secure AJAX applications. The Short Cut discusses web application security pitfalls that are common in AJAX development, given its focus on increased client processing and more frequent access to web services and databases. In addition, the digital Short Cut focuses on a few key security principles for AJAX developers-demystifying AJAX security and teaching how to develop secure AJAX applications using ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. The Short Cut concludes with a walkthrough of security testing best practices that will help effectively uncover security problems in AJAX applications during development and testing.
About the Author
Jason Schmitt is Group Product Manager for SPI Dynamics where he is responsible for overseeing product strategy and direction for the company's developer and QA products, DevInspect® and QAInspect®, that help build and test secure web applications. Jason's expertise extends from product management and product development to technical consulting. His background includes senior management at EzGov in product engineering where he managed product development teams in the design, implementation and delivery of web application framework and development products for e-government, as well as consulting management where he managed projects and programs of web application development for federal, state and international governments. Prior to EzGov, Jason was a technical consultant for Ariba, and a consultant for telecom companies for Anderson Consulting. Jason often contributes articles to industry publications on secure software development. Jason holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters of Business Administration from Georgia State University.
For more information on Secure ASP.NET AJAX Development, please visit www.informit.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321498100&rl=1. For more information on SPI Dynamics and securing web applications throughout the development process, please visit www.spidynamics.com.
For more information on AJAX security threats and their impact, the following materials from SPI Dynamics are available:
o White paper - "AJAX Security Dangers"
www.spidynamics.com/assets/documents/AJAXdangers.pdf
o On Demand Webcast - "AJAX (in)security"
https://download.spidynamics.com/registration/AJAX_webcast.asp
About Short Cuts
Short Cuts are concise PDF documents designed specifically for busy technical professionals, published by the imprints of Pearson Technology Group. Short Cuts are tightly focused on a specific technology or technical problem. This may be a cutting-edge new technology that shows great promise, or it may be an existing technology that has reached the "tipping point" and is about to take off. Either way, written by industry experts and best selling authors, Short Cuts are the short cut to technical mastery. Short Cuts Digital PDFsNEW
About S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc.
SPI Dynamics' comprehensive suite of products and services identify and remediate web application and web services security vulnerabilities throughout the application development lifecycle. These award-winning solutions also enable security professionals, QA testers, and developers to work together to verify compliance with over 22 security policies such as SOX, HIPAA and PCI. SPI Dynamics has the most application security testing customers worldwide - over 950 clients among Global 2000 enterprises, including four out of five of the world's largest banks and nine out of ten of the largest banks in the U.S., four out of five of the largest software companies, three out of four of the largest aerospace and defense companies, the four largest accounting firms, the five largest telecommunications companies in the U.S., six out of eight of the largest technology hardware and equipment companies, two out of three of the largest healthcare companies, and over ninety U.S. Federal agencies. The Company is one of the fastest growing in the security industry, ranked 83rd on Deloitte and Touche's "Fast 500" list of growing technology companies nationwide and 220th on the Inc. 500. SPI Dynamics has strategic partnerships with Microsoft, IBM, HP and Visa. The Company's R&D team, SPI Labs, is widely recognized as a world leading authority on web application security and risk management. For more information, visit www.spidynamics.com or call (866) 774-2700.
Source: S.P.I. Dynamics, Inc.
CONTACT: Ashley Vandiver of SPI Dynamics, +1-678-781-4841, Mobile,
+1-404-432-8657, avandiver@spidynamics.com; or Michelle Schafer of
+Merritt
Group, +1-703-390-1525, Mobile, +1-703-403-6377, schafer@merrittgrp.com, for SPI Dynamics
Web site: www.spidynamics.com/
http://www.spidynamics.com/assets/documents/AJAXdangers.pdf
https://download.spidynamics.com/registration/AJAX_webcast.asp
http://www.informit.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321498100&rl=1
