Web Security Fundamentals

( 22 Reviews )

Created by: Philippe De Ryck

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Web applications are inherently insecure, as aptly illustrated by a pile of recent events. Insecurity is however not fundamental to the web platform. As a matter of fact, the modern web offers a variety of powerful security features that help stop a hacker. Unfortutely, not many developers have the knowledge and skills to leverage these security features to their full potential.This course is imperative for understanding the fundamental security principles of the web. The course provides an overview of the most common attacks, and illustrates fundamental countermeasures that every web application should implement. In essence, this course offers you the knowledge and skills to build better and more secure applications.This MOOC will introduce you to the web security landscape. Throughout the course, you will gain insights into the threats that modern web applications face. You'll build an understanding of common attacks and their countermeasures; not only in theory, but also in practice. You'll be provided with an overview of current best practices to secure web applicationsAlthough no previous security knowledge is necessary to join this course, it will help to be familiar with the basic concepts behind web applications, including HTTP, HTML, and JavaScript.

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Philippe De Ryck

4.2 Rating
22 Reviews

Philippe De Ryck is a professional trainer and speaker on software security and web security. Since he obtained his PhD at the imec-DistriNet research group (KU Leuven, Belgium), he has been running the group's Web Security Training program, which ensures a sustainable knowledge transfer of security expertise towards practitioners.

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By Sumita Nain on 1 year, 6 months ago

This is really an interesting and informative course, the questions put up really make you scratch your brain and help to build a better understanding of the concepts. One of the best courses I have done. Thanks.

By Bernd 2017 on 1 year, 6 months ago

This course is fascinating and well presented. It is a real challenge and i spent more time than initially expected - it was worth every minute. The animations help to understand the explanations and the quizzes are motivating too. participating in this course i developed some web security skills i didn't have before. So i thank the instructor and his team for their effort and recommend Web Security Fundamentals to everybody interested.

By Anonymous on 5 months ago

Awesome course. Useful info for any developer. This course forced me to review all my code / apps. Thank you Philippe :)

By Anonymous on 2 years ago

This course is really exciting. I have rarely followed a MOOC as well. Internet Security is a much larger area than I thought.

By Anonymous on 2 years ago

Excellent, well-structured course. Very usefull course, covering all the actual web security issues and how to deal with them. Thanks

By Anonymous on 3 weeks ago

This course is so informative and useful. It keeps me watching it continuously. It deserves a 5-star. Well done and keep up with the good work.

By Arun B on 2 years ago

one of the nice courses that I've done...I hope you will upload more interesting courses...Looking forward for more experience with you.. thank you

By Bob B on a year ago

I spent lots of time and energies on this course, but the lessons were not clear, and I couldn't follow anything. My effort was there, but this just was poorly designed

By Anonymous on 2 months ago

Very well explained and presented class about major security OWASP aspects of Internet communication. it is opening the path to more advanced topics. Thank you Phillippe, well done.

By Anonymous on 2 years ago

A must do. A high quality course completed with very challenging questions and exams. They forces you to reflect, study and deeply grasp the material. Topics, data and materials are really recent and up to date.

By Jader S on 2 years ago

The course is really useful for everyone who develops web applications. Only with video classes one can easily forget the true nature of a security breach, but this course comes with the pratical labs that consolidate the learning.

By Juan S on a year ago

Simply excellent. In my opinion, this is one of the best MOCs I have ever studied. Maybe, some of the tests were a bit tricky on some occasions. Honestly, I had not much time free, however, it was so interesting that I had not any doubt to go ahead and finish it.