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Best Practices in Creating High Level Application Security

Overview Software piracy continues to be a growing epidemic. According to the Second Annual Business Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated, representing a loss of nearly $33 billion in 2004. This white paper examines prevalent hacking tactics and the means for effectively battling them. It also addresses best practices for implementing security to realize the full potential of available solutions.

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Publisher	SafeNet	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2005	Downloads	1
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