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Web Security: A Hands-on Approach
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(406 ratings)
3,335 students
Created byWenliang Du
Last updated 8/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the common security problems in web applications
  • Understand the security aspects of the web technologies
  • Gain hands-on experiences from the labs (SEED Labs) developed by the instructor
  • Learn web applications can be attached and how to defend against those attacks

Course content

5 sections36 lectures7h 11m total length
  • Introduction7:26
  • Browser7:36
  • JavaScript and Sandbox16:33
  • Web Server15:56
  • Cookies and Sessions19:02

    Explain why cookies are needed in a stateless web, how session and tracking cookies work, how cookies are set and attached to requests, and mention CSRF risks.

  • Ajax and WebSocket23:50
  • Summary1:20

Requirements

  • Have some basic programming background

Description

As the web has become more and more ubiquitous, the number of attacks on web applications have increased substantially. In this course, we systematically study the security problems in the web, including the security mechanisms implemented in the browse and server sides. We study several well-known attacks against web applications, such as cross-site request forgery, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and clickjacking attacks. We also study how we can defend against these attacks when developing web applications.

The attacks are covered in this course with great technical details. The course won't just teach students the high-level concepts and theories. It would dive into the low-level technical details and fundamentals, so students can fully understand how exactly things work, and gain the knowledge in depth.

The course emphasizes hands-on learning. For each attack covered, students not only learn how the attack works in theory, they also learn how to actually conduct the attack, in a contained virtual machine and container environment. The hands-on exercises developed by the instructor are called SEED labs, and they are being used by over 1000 institutes worldwide. The course is based on the textbook written by the instructor. The book, titled "Computer & Internet Security: A Hands-on Approach, 2nd Edition", has been adopted by over 210 universities and colleges worldwide.

Who this course is for:

  • Anybody who is interested in ethical hacking
  • Anybody who is interested in learning how web applications can be attached and how to protect them
  • Anybody who is interested in web technologies