Website Security Foundations

There’s no single day recently, without reports of a data leakage, a new software vulnerability or a new phishing campaign.

It’s enormously worrying, given the fact that increasingly large part of our lives are now lived digitally and online. We use computers and smartphones every day, we totally rely on online services and in effect we store much of our privacy in a digital form. Which is often not even on our devices. That’s why security has already become a huge and superimportant branch of IT industry. And it will only become more and more important.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of types of online attacks, aimed to:

steal money or data

support spam

blackmail or damage reputation of people or organizations

or simply to annoy people.

Even seemingly simple site can become an attack target, that’s why I believe that every web developer must know at least basics of web security, and of course use all security measures they know in their everyday work.

So this course is for all web developers: beginners, intermediates and self–taught amateurs, who want to build much more secure websites and become better web developers. I assume you have at least basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP, and already some experience in web development.