Welcome to Top Secret Web Programming - C375

Course Overview

This course is designed to give you a broad overview of web security and what goes into it. It will cover:

• What is security? What isn’t security?
• When does security matter? Why?
• What are some common attacks hackers will launch against your sites?
• Examples of security holes and breaches.
• What is cryptography? How and why does it work?
• How to code with security in mind.
• Security and the real world - a matter of life and death.
• Much more!

Reasons to Take This Course

• You know nothing about security, and you’re interested in learning about it.
• You’ve read about web security, know the basics, but want to learn about the latest advances in web security and understand how this can impact you.
• You want to make the internet a safer place.
• You can’t think of a better way to spend a saturday than sitting in a classroom.