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Secure Coding in Laravel

Aaron Saray

With Laravel, a PHP language framework, websites and apps are built faster and easier than ever before. With all of this tooling, abstraction and speed, however, it can be easy to forget or overlook security. In this course, you will learn about some of Laravel's built-in security features; best practices for securing your application; and real-life code and examples.

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With Laravel, a PHP language framework, websites and apps are built faster and easier than ever before. With all of this tooling, abstraction and speed, however, it can be easy to forget or overlook security. In this course, you will learn about some of Laravel's built-in security features; best practices for securing your application; and real-life code and examples.

The PHP framework Laravel offers many options to build strong, safe apps and websites. In the first part of this course, you will explore some of the most common ways to secure your Laravel application. You’ll learn about configuring your application securely to reduce the chance of leaking secrets and credentials, validating user input and authentication methodologies. The second half of the course focuses on user access control through gates and policies, eliminating SQL injection attacks and securing sessions with rate limits. If you stick with it through the end, you’ll get a bonus section about static analysis, tripwires and honeypots.

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Three courses

Laravel: Configure, Validate, Authenticate and Authorize

To get started in this beginning course on Laravel, we will examine the prerequisites needed to get the most out of this specialization. We’ll discuss the different ways to install the Laravel framework and focus on the most secure choice. We will also talk about the security concerns of using third-party packages and share resources to stay up-to-date with Laravel.

Laravel Additional Security

This course focuses on ways to keep your Laravel database secure. It starts with supporting request and response security. First, we’ll discuss how Laravel supports semantic request verbs while still being compatible with browsers. Then, tools to protect against cross-site request forgery and cross-site scripting protection are examined. Then it describes the best practices for applying specific security-related headers to responses are reviewed.

Laravel Protections

In this course, you'll explore Laravel's database protection mechanisms and how to configure them for optimal security. We'll discuss preventing SQL injection, customizing functionality without compromising security, and optimizing performance to mitigate denial of service attacks. Additionally, we'll delve into securing passwords, leveraging encryption, and tracking users with sessions and cookies. Finally, we'll cover rate limiting to protect endpoints.

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