Ten Security Tips for Developers

Security is an essential component of application and web development, yet it is easy to overlook in the rush to make things work and work well. How can you bake security into your development processes? In this short course, instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen examines ten security insights that every developer needs to build robust applications that protect the application itself, as well as the user. Learn about human issues, such as the pitfalls of trusting the user, the importance of limiting privileges and encrypting everything, and more. Then explore software issues, including public vs. private data, field verification, authenticating every interaction, and the importance of assuming that your walls will be breached.