Web application security

Lesson 04 · 14 min

Authentication, secrets and monitoring

Argon2id and bcrypt, login limits, MFA, secrets out of git, key rotation and logs that notice an attack.

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Categories A02, A07 and A09 are easiest to cover together: how to store passwords and keys, how to stop password guessing and how to notice that an attack is already under way. Hashing basics are in the "Authorization and security" course. Here we cover concrete settings and the mistakes people make in production.

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