Web Security for Developers

<b>Website security made easy. This book covers the most common ways websites get hacked and how web developers can defend themselves.</b><br><br>The world has changed. Today every time you make a site live you're opening it up to attack.<br><br>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.<br><i></i><br><i>Web Security for Developers</i> 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.<br><br>You'll learn how to:<br><li>Protect against SQL injection attacks malicious JavaScript and cross-site request forgery</li><li>Add authentication and shape access control to protect accounts</li><li>Lock down user accounts to prevent attacks that rely on guessing passwords stealing sessions</li><li>or escalating privileges</li><li>Implement encryption</li><li>Manage vulnerabilities in legacy code</li><li>Prevent information leaks that disclose vulnerabilities</li><li>Mitigate advanced attacks like malvertising and denial-of-service</li><br>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.