Building More Secure Software with Memory-Safe Programming Languages

June 13, 2023 • Presentation

By

Shane Miller (Rust Foundation)

This presentation explains the security tradeoffs of memory-safe programming language choices.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Topic or Tag

Abstract

Building software with memory-safe programming languages blocks 70% of the most dangerous security attacks. In this presentation, the author explains what memory safety is, walks through the real-world security improvements tech companies have made with memory-safe programming languages, and reviews memory safety differences in popular programming languages.