Secure your Node.js web application : keep attackers out and users happy / Karl Düüna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Düüna, Karl, author.

Contributor:

Rashid, Fahmida Y., editor.

Series:

Pragmatic programmers.

Pragmatic Programmers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Node.js.

Computer networks--Security measures.

Computer networks.

Web applications--Security measures.

Web applications.

Web applications--Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Version: P1.0 (January 2016).

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas ; Raleigh, North Carolina : The Pragmatic Bookself, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Cyber-criminals have your web applications in their crosshairs. They search for and exploit common security mistakes in your web application to steal user data. Learn how you can secure your Node.js applications, database and web server to avoid these security holes. Discover the primary attack vectors against web applications, and implement security best practices and effective countermeasures. Coding securely will make you a stronger web developer and analyst, and you'll protect your users. Bake security into your code from the start. See how to protect your Node.js applications at every point in the software development life cycle, from setting up the application environment to configuring the database and adding new functionality. You'll follow application security best practices and analyze common coding errors in applications as you work through the real-world scenarios in this book. Protect your database calls from database injection attacks and learn how to securely handle user authentication within your application. Configure your servers securely and build in proper access controls to protect both the web application and all the users using the service. Defend your application from denial of service attacks. Understand how malicious actors target coding flaws and lapses in programming logic to break in to web applications to steal information and disrupt operations. Work through examples illustrating security methods in Node.js. Learn defenses to protect user data flowing in and out of the application. By the end of the book, you'll understand the world of web application security, how to avoid building web applications that attackers consider an easy target, and how to increase your value as a programmer. What You Need: In this book we will be using mainly Node.js. The book covers the basics of JavaScript and Node.js. Since most Web applications have some kind of a database backend, examples in this book work with some of the more popular databases, including MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis.

Contents:

Meet your tools

Set up the environment

Start connecting

Avoid code injections

Secure your database interactions

Learn to do things concurrently

Bring authentication to your application

Focus on session management

Set up access controls

Defend against denial-of-service attacks

Fight cross-site scripts

Avoid request forgery

Protect your data

Secure the existing codebase.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781680501780

168050178X

9781680504637

1680504630

9781680504620

1680504622

9781680500851

1680500856

OCLC:

941101200