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Identifying Security Vulnerabilities

Secure Coding Practices,

This course will help you build a foundation of some of the fundamental concepts in secure programming. We will learn about the concepts of threat modeling and cryptography and you'll be able to start to create threat models, and think critically about the threat models created by other people. We'll learn the basics of applying cryptography, such as encryption and secure hashing. We'll learn how attackers can exploit application vulnerabilities through the improper handling user-controlled data. We'll gain a fundamental understanding of injection problems in web applications, including the three most common types of injection problems: SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and command injection. We'll also cover application authentication and session management where authentication is a major component of a secure web application and session management is the other side of the same coin, since the authenticated state of user requests need to be properly handled and run as one session. We'll learn about sensitive data exposure issues and how you can help protect your customer's data. We'll cover how to effectively store password-related information, and not to store the actual plaintext passwords. We'll participate in coding assignment that will help you to better understand the mechanisms for effectively storing password-related information. Along the way, we’ll discuss ways of watching out for and mitigating these issues and be able have some fun and exploit two different vulnerabilities in a web application that was designed to be vulnerable, called WebGoat.

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Rating 4.4★ based on 7 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-5 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (46 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of California, Davis via Coursera
Instructor Sandra Escandor-O'Keefe
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Language English
Subjects Programming IT & Networking
Tags Computer Science Computer Security And Networks Security Information Technology

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An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.

Counseling Theories & Models Part-Time Faculty $17k

Network and Threat Support Specialist (Mid-Level) $53k

Trainer of Evidence Based Models $54k

Threat Detection & Incident Response... $65k

Network Threat Support Specialist (NTSS Mid) $75k

Threat Analyst $77k

Insider Threat Analyst $79k

Security Threat Analyst ll $81k

First Watch-Threat Research Systems Administrator $92k

Assistant Adjunct Professor Statistical Models $122k

Senior Threat & Vulnerability Analyst $122k

Risk Analytics Tools and Models Program Manager $136k

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Rating 4.4★ based on 7 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-5 hours/week
Starts Jul 3 (46 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of California, Davis via Coursera
Instructor Sandra Escandor-O'Keefe
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming IT & Networking
Tags Computer Science Computer Security And Networks Security Information Technology

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