Web application security: what to do when…
- Web security demystified: WASEC
- Introduction
- Understanding the browser
- Security at the HTTP level
- HTTP headers to secure your application
- Hardening HTTP cookies
- Situationals
This post is part of the ”WASEC: Web Application SECurity” series, which is a portion of the content of WASEC, an e-book on web application security I’ve written.
Here is a list of all the articles in this series:
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Often times, we’re challenged with decisions that have a direct impact on the security of our applications, and the consequences of those decisions could potentially be disastrous. This article aims to present a few scenarios you might be faced with, and offer advice on how to handle each and every single 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 centre of your attention by offering a few examples.
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