From the course: JavaScript: Security Essentials
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Better practices for sensitive data - JavaScript Tutorial
From the course: JavaScript: Security Essentials
Better practices for sensitive data
- [Presenter] Needless to say, I don't need to explain what a data breach is or why sensitive data needs to be protected at all times, especially if you, the developer, don't want to be sued. All you need to do is search in Google the word "data breach," and you'll find plenty of examples of recent attacks where the users' identities, credentials, personal information, or even credit card information was breached. Recent examples of these types of public attacks include Equifax and Marriott and hospitals, just to mention a few. So, you know we need to take a serious look into this and what we can do about it. Securing data isn't just a simple technique, but all of the areas we're exploring in this course. For example, if you don't have proper authorization techniques in your application or use poor scripting rules into your code, you'll open your data for hackers to exploit it. So all the other techniques in this course applies to protect your data. On top of all this, we'll explore…
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