Identity and Data Security for Web Development: Best Practices - Softcover

LeBlanc, Jonathan; Messerschmidt, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491937017 ISBN 13: 9781491937013

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2016

Synopsis

Developers, designers, engineers, and creators can no longer afford to pass responsibility for identity and data security onto others. Web developers who don’t understand how to obscure data in transmission, for instance, can open security flaws on a site without realizing it. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how and why everyone working on a system needs to ensure that users and data are protected.

Authors Jonathan LeBlanc and Tim Messerschmidt provide a deep dive into the concepts, technology, and programming methodologies necessary to build a secure interface for data and identity—without compromising usability. You’ll learn how to plug holes in existing systems, protect against viable attack vectors, and work in environments that sometimes are naturally insecure.

• Understand the state of web and application security today
• Design security password encryption, and combat password attack vectors
• Create digital fingerprints to identify users through browser, device, and paired device detection
• Build secure data transmission systems through OAuth and OpenID Connect
• Use alternate methods of identification for a second factor of authentication
• Harden your web applications against attack
• Create a secure data transmission system using SSL/TLS, and synchronous and asynchronous cryptography

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan LeBlanc is an Emmy award winning software engineer, author of the O'Reilly book "Programming Social Applications", co-author of the upcoming title "Identity and Data Security for Web Development", and the Head of Global Developer Advocacy for PayPal. 

As a long time mobile and web developer, Tim channels his knowledge and experience as Braintree's Head of Developer Relations. He is passionate about startups and serves as a mentor at multiple incubators and accelerators. Prior to joining PayPal, Tim worked with Neofonie Mobile and Samsung focusing on several mobile projects. In his spare time, he leads and creates training classes in all sorts of developer-oriented topics, contributes to Open Source projects and is one of the authors of the Mobile Developer's Guide to the Galaxy. In addition, he authored numerous articles published in print magazines.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491937017
• ISBN 13: 9781491937013
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204