Security for Web Developers - Using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS (Early Release, Raw & Unedited)

As a web developer, you may not want to spend time making your web app secure, but it definitely comes with the territory. This practical guide provides you with the latest information on how to thwart security threats at several levels, including new areas such as microservices. You’ll learn how to help protect your app no matter where it runs, from the latest smartphone to an older desktop, and everything in between.Author John Paul Mueller delivers specific advice as well as several security programming examples for developers with a good knowledge of CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript. In five separate sections, this book shows you how to protect against viruses, DDoS attacks, security breaches, and other nasty intrusions.Create a security plan for your organization that takes the latest devices and user needs into accountDevelop secure interfaces, and safely incorporate third-party code from libraries, APIs, and microservicesUse sandboxing techniques, in-house and third-party testing techniques, and learn to think like a hackerImplement a maintenance cycle by determining when and how to update your application softwareLearn techniques for efficiently tracking security threats as well as training requirements that your organization can use\*\*About the AuthorJohn Paul Mueller is a technical editor and freelance author who has written on topics ranging from database management to heads-down programming, from networking to artificial intelligence. He is the author of Start Here!TM Learn Microsoft Visual C#® 2010. As a web developer, you may not want to spend time making your web app secure, but it definitely comes with the territory. This practical guide provides you with the latest information on how to thwart security threats at several levels, including new areas such as microservices. You ll learn how to help protect your app no matter where it runs, from the latest smartphone to an older desktop, and everything in between. Author John Paul Mueller delivers specific advice as well as several security programming examples for developers with a good knowledge of CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript. In five separate sections, this book shows you how to protect against viruses, DDoS attacks, security breaches, and other nasty intrusions.Create a security plan for your organization that takes the latest devices and user needs into accountDevelop secure interfaces, and safely incorporate third-party code from libraries, APIs, and microservicesUse sandboxing techniques, in-house and third-party testing techniques, and learn to think like a hackerImplement a maintenance cycle by determining when and how to update your application softwareLearn techniques for efficiently tracking security threats as well as training requirements that your organization can use" Some books give you good advice, but only about part of the security problem. Others provide solutions so generic that they aren’t truly useful. Unfortunately, attacking only part of the problem leaves you open to hacking or other security issues. And general advice no longer meets current security needs. This practical book provides specific advice for the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS developer on all areas of security, including new areas not found in any other book, such as microservices. You'll get a complete view of security changes needed to protect an application and keep its data safe. Understand the real sources of threats to web applications Learn how to use new technologies such as microservices in a safe manner Get information-rich information on third party APIs, libraries, microservices, and other sources of code that you rely on Find solutions that help make the problems smaller, more manageable, and fixable at specific stages of application development Annotation Some books give you good advice, but only about part of the security problem. Others provide solutions so generic that they aren't truly useful. Unfortunately, attacking only part of the problem leaves you open to hacking or other security issues. And general advice no longer meets current security needs. This practical book provides specific advice for the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS developer on all areas of security, including new areas not found in any other book, such as microservices. You'll get a complete view of security changes needed to protect an application and keep its data safe "As a web developer, you may not want to spend time making your web app secure, but it definitely comes with the territory. This practical guide provides you with the latest information on how to thwart security threats at several levels, including new areas such as microservices."--Page 4 of cover