Security is a big issue and all too often it is only thought of as it applies to the network administrator. However, programmers face a host of threats to their applications. The solution is to build a threat model. The purpose of a threat model is to aid in identifying potential threats before a system is built, not after. This talk will cover some of the common threats to applications and how to prevent them. This talk is based upon Microsoft's Threat Analysis and Modeling (TAM) tool which is free. This tool has been used by Ford and Boeing as part of their information life cycle process. Additional resources will also be given.

Russell McMahon is an associate professor of IT at the College of Applied Science, University of Cincinnati. He teaches programming and database administration using C# and SQL Server. He is also actively involved in many of the IT-related users groups in the Cincinnati area and is a long-time council member and current President of the Cincinnati Programmers Guild. Russ is also interested in the history of computing and is currently researching UC's computing history. In November UC will be celebrating its first 50 yrs of computing with a conference on Nov 10-11.

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