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Web Security: User Authentication and Access Control

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Tags

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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
1. User Authentication
  • The importance of authentication
  • Authentication factors
  • Credentials
  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Pitfalls of multi-factor authentication
  • Biomertric authentication
2. Passwords
  • Password hashing
  • Brute force attacks
  • Speed and throttling
  • Dictionary attacks
  • Salted passwords
  • Strong passwords and password managers
3. Managing User Passwords
  • Password requirements
  • Password theft and reuse
  • Handle forgotten passwords
4. Access Control
  • Insecure references
  • Regulating access privileges
  • Cookies and sessions
  • Deny lists and geofilters
  • Single sign-on services
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Kevin Skoglund

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