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

# Decisions decisions!

Often times, we're faced with decisions that have a direct impact on the security of our applications, and the consequences of those decisions could be disastrous. This chapter aims to present a few scenarios you might be faced with and offer advice on how to handle each of them.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of security considerations you will have to make in your day to day as a software engineer, but rather an inspiration to keep security at the center of your focus by offering a few examples.

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Let's start with denylisting and allowlisting in the next lesson!

Let's kick off this chapter with a quick introduction!

Introduction

Understanding The Browser

HTTP

Protection through HTTP Headers

HTTP Cookies

Situationals

DDoS Attacks

Bug Bounty Programs

Conclusion

Introduction to Situationals

Decisions decisions!