Description
Website security made easy. This book covers the most common ways websites get hacked and how web developers can defend themselves. The world has changed. Today, every time you make a site live, you're opening it up to attack. A first-time developer can easily be discouraged by the difficulties involved with properly securing a website. But have hope: an army of security researchers is out there discovering, documenting, and fixing security flaws. Thankfully, the tools you'll need to secure your site are freely available and generally easy to use.
Web Security for Developers will teach you how your websites are vulnerable to attack and how to protect them. Each chapter breaks down a major security vulnerability and explores a real-world attack, coupled with plenty of code to show you both the vulnerability and the fix. You'll learn how to:
- Protect against SQL injection attacks, malicious JavaScript, and cross-site request forgery
- Add authentication and shape access control to protect accounts
- Lock down user accounts to prevent attacks that rely on guessing passwords, stealing sessions,
- or escalating privileges
- Implement encryption
- Manage vulnerabilities in legacy code
- Prevent information leaks that disclose vulnerabilities
- Mitigate advanced attacks like malvertising and denial-of-service As you get stronger at identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, you'll learn to deploy disciplined, secure code and become a better programmer along the way.
Author: Malcolm McDonald
Publisher: No Starch Press
Published: 06/19/2020
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781593279943
ISBN10: 1593279949
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Security | Network Security
- Computers | Internet | Web Programming
- Computers | Electronic Commerce (see also headings under Business & Econ
Web Security for Developers will teach you how your websites are vulnerable to attack and how to protect them. Each chapter breaks down a major security vulnerability and explores a real-world attack, coupled with plenty of code to show you both the vulnerability and the fix. You'll learn how to:
- Protect against SQL injection attacks, malicious JavaScript, and cross-site request forgery
- Add authentication and shape access control to protect accounts
- Lock down user accounts to prevent attacks that rely on guessing passwords, stealing sessions,
- or escalating privileges
- Implement encryption
- Manage vulnerabilities in legacy code
- Prevent information leaks that disclose vulnerabilities
- Mitigate advanced attacks like malvertising and denial-of-service As you get stronger at identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, you'll learn to deploy disciplined, secure code and become a better programmer along the way.
Author: Malcolm McDonald
Publisher: No Starch Press
Published: 06/19/2020
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781593279943
ISBN10: 1593279949
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Security | Network Security
- Computers | Internet | Web Programming
- Computers | Electronic Commerce (see also headings under Business & Econ
About the Author
Malcolm McDonald has been programming for over 20 years. McDonald is the creator of www.hacksplaining.com, an online training program for web developers.