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About common vulnerabilities plaguing today's web applications
How to deploy mitigations to protect your applications against hackers
Practical tips to help you improve the overall security of your web applications
How to map and document web applications for which you don’t have direct access
While many resources for network and IT security are available, detailed knowledge regarding modern web application security has been lacking – until now. This practical guide provides both offensive and defensive security concepts that software engineers can easily learn and apply.
NGINX is proud to make the O’Reilly eBook, Web Application Security, available for free download with our compliments. This eBook is written by Andrew Hoffman, a senior security engineer at Salesforce, and introduces three pillars of web application security: recon, offense, and defense. It also features a foreword by Chris Witeck of NGINX at F5.
