    Gain insights into HTTP security headers, learn their risks, explore solutions, and discover how to implement them using Helmet for enhanced web application security.

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This course teaches you hands-on practical use of HTTP security headers as browser security controls to help secure web applications.

For each HTTP security header that can enhance your web application security, you'll learn what is the overall risk of not implementing it, and what does a proposed solution help with. Finally, you'll learn how to implement and configure the security header with Helmet, a popular and well maintained Node.js package on npm.

Web Application Security: Understanding HTTP Security Headers

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 DevTools console might appear elsewhere in your setup, or as its own window.

Once opened, click on the `Lighthouse` tab and you should see the available categories to include in our tests.



Lighthouse is Google's open source browser automation and testing tool which can provide insights about web best practices for performance, accessibility, security, and more. It's right there in your Chrome's DevTools console, and chances are are there are some ways you can get more functionality out of it. We will go over some of those tips here.

Introduction

HTTP Security Headers

Testing for Security Headers

What's Next?

Chrome's Lighthouse

Getting started