Web Application Defender’s Cookbook: Battling Hackers and Protecting Users

Description
Defending your web applications against hackers andattackers

The top-selling book Web Application Hacker’s Handbookshowed how attackers and hackers identify and attack vulnerablelive web applications. This new Web Application Defender’sCookbook is the perfect counterpoint to that book: it shows youhow to defend. Authored by a highly credentialed defensivesecurity expert, this new book details defensive security methodsand can be used as courseware for training network securitypersonnel, web server administrators, and security consultants.

Each “recipe” shows you a way to detect and defend againstmalicious behavior and provides working code examples for theModSecurity web application firewall module. Topics includeidentifying vulnerabilities, setting hacker traps, defendingdifferent access points, enforcing application flows, and muchmore.

Provides practical tactics for detecting web attacks andmalicious behavior and defending against them
Written by a preeminent authority on web application firewalltechnology and web application defense tactics
Offers a series of “recipes” that include working code examplesfor the open-source ModSecurity web application firewallmodule

Find the tools, techniques, and expert information you need todetect and respond to web application attacks with WebApplication Defender’s Cookbook: Battling Hackers and ProtectingUsers.