Safety of Web Applications: Risks, Encryption and Handling Vulnerabilities with PHP

by Eric Quinton

Overview

Safety of Web Applications: Risks, Encryption and Handling Vulnerabilities with PHP explores many areas that can help computer science students and developers integrate security into their applications. The Internet is not secure, but it's very friendly as a tool for storing and manipulating data. Customer confidence in Internet software is based on it's ability to prevent damage and attacks, but secure software is complicated, depending on several factors, including good risk estimation, good code architecture, cyphering, web server configuration, coding to prevent the most common attacks, and identification and rights allocation. - Helps computer science students and developers integrate security into their applications - Includes sections on risk estimate, MVC modeling, the cyphering (certificates, bi-keys, https protocol)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081023624
Publisher:	ISTE Press - Elsevier
Publication date:	04/11/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Eric Quinton works in Data Base management at IRSTEA. He was a Computer Manager at DRAF Acquitaine. His work focuses on project management, computing, JavaScript, Linux, PHP, SQL

Table of Contents

1. Why Do Web Applications Need to be Secure?2. Estimating Risk3. Encryption and Web Server Configuration4. Threats and Protecting Against Them5. Managing User Logins and Assigning Permissions6. Using the MVC Model to Structure the Application7. Implementing a Suitable Technical Platform and Testing the Application

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From the Publisher

Explains how encryption works, how to secure a web server, and how to identify users and grant rights