Book review Monday:::Securing Ajax Applications

Security consultant Christopher Wells has just written Securing Ajax Applications, $49.99 from O'Reilly. While the book is written for Ajax developers, I think it's more appropriate for business analysts who are specifying Ajax projects. Security Ajax Applications has a lot more to say to technically literate project managers than to hot shot programmers. Don't get me wrong, developers will get a fundamental grounding in creating secure applications. However, until security is specified as a program requirement by the people paying the developers' salary, Ajax apps will be developed as quickly as possible with little regard to security. Over the last two years there has been much heat in the security community about the insecurities of Ajax application development. Case in point was the presentation on Premature Ajax-ulation at Black Hat Las Vegas in August. The presenters, Bryan Sullivan and Billy Hoffman of SPI Dynamics (acquired the same day the presentation,...