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

They download a document from a server and render it.

A Web browser and Google are the same thing.

Which of the following is true about browsers?

Which of the following is true about browsers?

Browsers always render graphically.

1. DNS resolution
2. HTTP exchange
3. Rendering

1. HTTP exchange
2. DNS resolution
3. Rendering

1. DNS resolution
2. Rendering
3. HTTP exchange

Which of the following describes browser function in the correct order?

Which of the following describes browser function in the correct order?

The process of resolving a hostname from a given IP.

The process of finding an IP address from a given hostname.

The process of resolving domain name from a given hostname.

Each browser has it's own set of vulnerabilities

Each browser has it’s own set of vulnerabilities

It's a good idea to support as many browsers as possible.

It’s a good idea to support as many browsers as possible.

A sort of “minimum requirements” for browsers

A sort of “minimum requirements” for all software development

Introduction

Understanding The Browser

HTTP

Protection through HTTP Headers

HTTP Cookies

Situationals

DDoS Attacks

Bug Bounty Programs

Conclusion

Quiz Yourself on Browsers