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Practical Web Security

The vulnerabilities that actually show up in web applications, how they are exploited, and how to close them for good.

Portrait of Alina CostaInstructor Alina Costa
Intermediate2h 0m4 modules13.3k students
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What you'll learn

Think in threat models

Reason about who your attacker is and what they can reach before writing defences.

Close the common holes

Understand and prevent injection, cross-site scripting, and request forgery.

Get authentication right

Sessions, password storage, and multi-factor done the way that survives review.

Harden the deployment

Headers, transport, secrets, and dependencies — the perimeter around your code.

Course Content

4 modules · 2h 0m