Defeating Injection Attacks in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core
by Matt Honeycutt
Web applications are at constant risk of attack, and one of the most common attacks is the dreaded injection attack. This course will show you how to defeat three common injection attacks, including SQL Injection, in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core.
What you'll learn
Web applications, including the one you just created, are under constant attack by bad actors. In this course, Defeating Injection Attacks in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core, you will gain the ability to defend against common injection attacks in ASP.NET applications. First, you will learn about SQL injection attacks, and how to thwart them. Next, you will discover how injection attacks can be applied to NoSQL, and how to properly defend against such attacks. Finally, you will see examples of process injection attacks, and how to prevent them. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of defeating injection attacks for ASP.NET needed to build secure applications.
About the author
Matt Honeycutt is a software architect specializing in ASP.NET web applications, particularly ASP.NET MVC. He has over a decade of experience in building (and testing!) web applications. He’s an avid practitioner of Test-Driven Development, creating both the SpecsFor and SpecsFor.Mvc frameworks. He has served as the lead developer on numerous multi-million dollar software projects and enjoys finding elegant solutions to difficult problems.
As life-long learner, Matt remains dedicated to expan... moreding his knowledge of all things related to development. He holds a Masters of Science in Computer Science, and he’s published papers in research journals and conferences on topics ranging from data mining and machine learning to human-computer interaction.
Matt lives with his wife and two children in beautiful Tennessee, where he spends his days as a Director of IT and senior engineer for a small software company.
When he's not busy cranking out code or chasing down his kids, Matt enjoys helping others hone their development skills. He blogs at http://trycatchfail.com, and he is a frequent speaker at software conferences in Tennessee.