Web Security: User Authentication and Access Control
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn the fundamentals of verifying user authenticity, best practices for managing passwords and user logins, and how to prevent unauthorized access to web pages and actions.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Verify identity and access privileges
- The importance of authentication
- Authentication factors
- Credentials
- Multi-factor authentication
- Pitfalls of multi-factor authentication
- Biomertric authentication
- Password hashing
- Brute force attacks
- Speed and throttling
- Dictionary attacks
- Salted passwords
- Strong passwords and password managers
- Password requirements
- Password theft and reuse
- Handle forgotten passwords
- Insecure references
- Regulating access privileges
- Cookies and sessions
- Deny lists and geofilters
- Single sign-on services
- Next steps
Taught by
Kevin Skoglund
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