Safety of Web Applications: Risks, Encryption and Handling Vulnerabilities with PHP

Explores many areas that can help computer science students and developers integrate security into their applications. The Internet is not secure, but it’s very friendly as a tool for storing and manipulating data. Customer confidence in Internet software is based on its ability to prevent damage and attacks, but secure software is complicated, depending on several factors, including good risk estimation, good code architecture, cyphering, web server configuration, coding to prevent the most common attacks, and identification and rights allocation.

- Helps computer science students and developers integrate security into their applications

- Includes sections on risk estimate, MVC modeling, the cyphering (certificates, bi-keys, https protocol)