Secure Coding Fundamentals
- 1 Section
- 12 Lessons
Getting started
12 Lessons
- Think like an attacker
- Never Trust Input
- Keep Data and Command Separate
- Encode output for its Context
- Check permissions every time
- Least privilege and secure defaults
- Fail Securely
- Protect secrets and sensitive data
- Defense in depth (capstone)
- Final Assessment: VIEH Store launch audit
- Instructor Answer Key
- Learners Cheatsheet
Secure Coding Fundamentals is a hands-on introduction to writing safe software. Through a story-driven set of interactive labs set in a practice web store, you’ll exploit real vulnerabilities and then patch them, learning the principles that apply in every programming language. The course covers the OWASP essentials, including injection, XSS, broken access control, least privilege, failing securely, and protecting secrets, and ends with a guided practical assessment where you audit and sign off a feature before launch. No prior security experience is needed. It’s the ideal foundation before any language-specific secure coding course.
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