Introduction
Today’s web applications are under attack. This book helps you understand the most common threats against web applications today. You’ll also learn a wide variety of defense techniques to help you build Java web applications that prevent these attacks from being successful. The following sections describe what you’ll find in the book.
Chapter 1: Web Application Security Basics
In this chapter, you learn about the inner workings of the HTTP protocol, learn the basics of using intercepting proxies to tamper with requests, and review a variety of HTTP security response headers.
Chapter 2: Authentication and Session Management
You explore ...
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