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rseacordonApr 13, 2021
throwaway20014onMay 7, 2021
by Robert C. Seacord. [1]. It's from 2020.
Robert Seacord is a Technical Director at NCC Group where he develops and delivers secure coding training in C, C++, and other languages. Seacord is an expert on the C Standards committee. > That's some solid credentials. He focuses on secure C code in the book.
Here's a short article on why he wrote the book [2].
[1] https://nostarch.com/Effective_C
[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9237323