Hello all,

I'm going to be starting a new project soon--It's to build an SECURE web based application that involves clients name/pw and transferring data through the internet. When I say transferring data through the internet, I mean inserting data into a MySQL db through forms.

Do you guys have any recommendations on books I can read to help me build a secure application? If I need a database to be secure as possible, is MySQL a good option? Or should I switch to something like Oracle? (I'll be on a Windows2k professional machine) Some security issues I want to learn are using tint, secure forms (maxlegnth, strict), secure username/pw (good enough encryption to block the good hackers), and any other security issues I may need to proof up on my application.

As of now, my Perl skills extend to a certain amount. I can build an efficient web application with awesome forms and insertting/verifying them correctly, but when it comes down to how secure my application can be worries me.

Also I heard VB .NET is the new wave of programming language thats taking over to build SECURE web based applications? Should I not even bother trying to build it with PERL and perhaps learn VB .NET?

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you,
perleager

In reply to Security for an Web based applicatoin by perleager

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.