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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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.

Web Application Security for the Everyday Software Engineer

# The future: Distributed denial of service attacks

Now that we went through a few common scenarios you might face within your career, it's time to look at a type of attack that has garnered the most attention in recent years. It’s popular today due to the widespread adoption of both cloud computing and IoT devices, allowing attackers to create armies of loyal soldiers ready to wreak havoc within our networks.

They are distributed, they are many, they grow in intensity each and every year, and they represent a constant threat to public-facing companies on the internet; it’s time to look at DDoS attacks.

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Let's take a quick quiz to test your knowledge of situationals in the next lesson.

Let's conclude this chapter with a quick glance at what denial of service attacks are.

Introduction

Understanding The Browser

HTTP

Protection through HTTP Headers

HTTP Cookies

Situationals

DDoS Attacks

Bug Bounty Programs

Conclusion

Hold The Door

The future: Distributed denial of service attacks