Web Application Security

Exploitation and Countermeasures for Modern Web Applications

Andrew Hoffman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

450 Seiten

2020
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-1-4920-5311-8 (ISBN)

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This practical guide provides both defensive and offensive security concepts that software engineers can easily learn and apply. Andrew Hoffman, a product security lead at Salesforce, introduces three pillars of web application security: recon, offense, and defense.

While many resources for network and IT security are available, detailed knowledge regarding modern web application security has been lacking—until now. This practical guide provides both offensive and defensive security concepts that software engineers can easily learn and apply.

Andrew Hoffman, a senior security engineer at Salesforce, introduces three pillars of web application security: recon, offense, and defense. You’ll learn methods for effectively researching and analyzing modern web applications—including those you don’t have direct access to. You’ll also learn how to break into web applications using the latest hacking techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to develop mitigations for use in your own web applications to protect against hackers.

Explore common vulnerabilities plaguing today's web applications
Learn essential hacking techniques attackers use to exploit applications
Map and document web applications for which you don’t have direct access
Develop and deploy customized exploits that can bypass common defenses
Develop and deploy mitigations to protect your applications against hackers
Integrate secure coding best practices into your development lifecycle
Get practical tips to help you improve the overall security of your web applications

Andrew Hoffman is a product security lead at Salesforce.com, where he is responsible for the security of multiple JavaScript, NodeJS, and OSS teams. His expertise is in deep DOM and JavaScript security vulnerabilities. He has worked with every major browser vendor, as well as with TC39 and WHATWG ? the organizations responsible for the upcoming version of JavaScript and the browser DOM spec. Prior to this role, Andrew was a software security engineer working on Locker Service, the world's first JavaScript namespace isolation library that operates from the interpreter level up. In parallel, Andrew also contributed to the upcoming JavaScript language security feature "Realms," which provides language level namespace isolation to JavaScript.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.03.2020
Verlagsort	Sebastopol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 232 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
ISBN-10	1-4920-5311-2 / 1492053112
ISBN-13	978-1-4920-5311-8 / 9781492053118
Zustand	Neuware