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Secure Coding: Preventing Insecure Deserialization

This course will teach you the basics of serialization and deserialization, including serialization file formats, what insecure deserialization is, and how to prevent that type of vulnerability from occurring in your code.

Peter Mosmans - Pluralsight course - Secure Coding: Preventing Insecure Deserialization
by Peter Mosmans

What you'll learn

As a developer, it is important to be familiar with common vulnerabilities that are often encountered in web application. Insecure deserialization is one of those vulnerabilities, ranking 8th in the OWASP Top 10 2017. In this course, Secure Coding: Preventing Insecure Deserialization, you will learn how to properly defend yourself against that particular vulnerability First, you will learn about the basics of serialization and deserialization, and about the various serialization file formats. Next, you will discover what insecure deserialization actually is, and how it can be exploited: In order to fix the problem, you need to know what can go wrong. Finally you will explore how to properly prevent insecure deserialization in any development language or framework. By the end of this course, you will have the secure coding skills and knowledge needed to prevent insecure deserialization vulnerabilities from creeping into your application.

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About the author

Peter Mosmans - Pluralsight course - Secure Coding: Preventing Insecure Deserialization
Peter Mosmans

Peter started out in the nineties as software engineer working on internet banking applications for various European financial institutions. Since 2004, he started specializing in pentesting complex and feature-rich web applications. Currently, he leads a global team of highly skilled and enthusiastic penetration testers as lead pentester.

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