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Web Application Security: Understanding HTTP Security Headers

Chrome's Lighthouse

Explore how to utilize Chrome Lighthouse for testing web application security headers. Understand how to generate reports that highlight best practices, identify vulnerable JavaScript libraries, and detect unsafe links. This lesson helps you evaluate and improve your website's security posture effectively.

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By using Lighthouse, we can learn how to improve our website’s metrics based on insights and recommendations provided after a scan is performed.

Getting started

Continuing with our previous example, let’s browse over to Fox News’ website.

Once the website has loaded, launch DevTools using the “F12” key or CMD-OPTION-I if you’re on a Mac. The location of the ...