Description
The focus is highlighting how hackers attack applications along with a broad arsenal of defenses. This will enable you to pick appropriate techniques to close vulnerabilities while still providing users with their needed functionality.
Topics covered include:
What You'll Learn
- Review the defenses that can used to prevent attacks
- Model risks to better understand what to defend and how
- Choose appropriate techniques to defend against attacks
- Implement defenses in Python/Django applications
- Developers who already know how to build web applications but need to know more about security
- Non-professional software engineers, such as scientists, who must develop web tools and want to make their algorithms available to a wider audience.
- Engineers and managers who are responsible for their product/company technical security policy
About the Author
Matthew Baker is the Head of Scientific Software and Data Management at ETH Zurich, Switzerland's leading science and technology university, He leads a team of engineers developing custom software to support STEM research projects, as well as teaches computer science short courses. Having over 25 years of experience developing software, he has worked as a developer, systems administrator, project manager and consultant in various sectors from banking and insurance, science and engineering, to military intelligence.
Book Information
ISBN 9781484285954
Author Matthew Baker
Format Paperback
Page Count 462
Imprint APress
Publisher APress