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Web Application Security for the Everyday Software Engineer

Name: Web Application Security for the Everyday Software Engineer
Price: 59 USD
Rating: 4.72 (47 reviews)
Author: Alex Nadalin

Gain insights into enforcing web app security best practices, such as HTTPS, defending against XSS and clickjacking, managing HTTP cookies, and warding off DDoS attacks.

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72 lessons

1 project

Created by Alex Nadalin

Web Application Security for the Everyday Software Engineer

What's included

72 lessons across 9 modules
7 quizzes with instant feedback
1 project in preconfigured environments
AI Tutor on every lesson

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What You'll Learn

Analyze browser and HTTP request/response flows to identify common web security risk points
Implement HTTPS protections using HSTS and certificate transparency checks (Expect-CT)
Configure security headers to mitigate XSS, clickjacking, and unsafe browser features
Apply CORS and Referrer-Policy settings to control cross-origin access and referrer leakage
Harden session cookies using Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite, and scoped Domain/Path attributes
Mitigate common engineering risks like SQL injection, weak session IDs, and logging secrets
Evaluate and apply DDoS mitigation options, including major cloud protection services

Learning Roadmap

72 Lessons7 Quizzes

Introduction

Get familiar with essential web app security practices, audience focus, formatting, and future content.

Introduction to the Course

Who This Course Is For?

Formatting

Errata and Additional Content

Understanding The Browser

Look at browser mechanics to understand functionality, security, and development tools.

Browser Basics

What Does a Browser Do?

Vendors

A Browser for Developers

Quiz Yourself on Browsers

HTTP

7 Lessons

Break apart HTTP's mechanisms, security enhancements, and essential distinctions for secure communication.

Protection through HTTP Headers

12 Lessons

Find out about enhancing web security through various HTTP headers and their practical applications.

HTTP Cookies

11 Lessons

Map out the steps for understanding, implementing, and securing HTTP cookies in web development.

Situationals

16 Lessons

Focus on making security-focused decisions in software engineering to enhance web app protection.

DDoS Attacks

7 Lessons

Build on understanding DDoS attacks, their mechanics, real-world examples, and mitigation strategies.

Bug Bounty Programs

7 Lessons

Learn how to use bug bounty programs to enhance software security through ethical collaboration.

Conclusion

3 Lessons

Get started with viewing security as an ongoing journey, future-proofing updates, and community appreciation.

Deploy an API to Production Using Nginx

Project

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About this course

WHY I WROTE THIS COURSE

There are more vulnerabilities than ever when creating applications for the web, so it is extremely important that software developers enforce security best practices such as, how to add protection through HTTP headers. In this course, you will start off by learning how to prevent fraudulent SSL certificates from being served to clients, before moving on to how to defend against XSS attacks and clickjacking. In the latter half of the course, you’ll learn security practices related to HTTP cookies, and tips around security tradeoffs that you’ll make in your day-to-day work. Towards the end, you’ll learn how to ward off DDoS attacks, which is crucial when your application scales. This course will demystify web security, and help you stay on top of important security-related concerns in your web apps.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alex Nadalin

Alex is a software engineer who loves distributed systems, Golang, NodeJS, scalability, system design, µseconds. He created http://abs-lang.org and loves to work with open source.

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