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PHP: Creating Secure Websites

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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PHP Courses Web Development Courses Input Validation Courses SQL Injection Prevention Courses

Course Description

Overview

Learn how to meet the most important security challenges when developing websites with PHP.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The need for security with PHP
1. Security Overview
  • What is security?
  • Security and PHP
  • General security principles
2. Securing Your PHP Installation
  • Keeping versions up to date
  • phpinfo and phpMyAdmin
  • Configure error reporting and logging
  • Other configuration options
  • PHP on a shared host
3. Filtering Input and Controlling Output
  • Validating input
  • Sanitizing data
  • Keeping code private
  • Smart logging
  • Cookie configuration
4. Defending the Most Common Attacks
  • Cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
  • SQL injection
  • Session hijacking and fixation
  • Remote system execution
  • PHP code injection
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Kevin Skoglund

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