The CERT C Secure Coding Standard
Robert C. Seacord · 2008
Secure coding standards define rules and recommendations to guide the development of secure software systems. Establishing secure coding standards provides a basis for secure system development as well as a common set of criteria that can be used to measure and evaluate software development efforts and software development tools and processes. This paper describes plans by the CERT/Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University to establish, through a coordinated community effort, a set of secure coding standards for commonly used programming languages.