JavaScript Security Essentials: Exploring the Attack Surface

Course Overview

• Course Title: JavaScript Security Essentials: Exploring the Attack Surface
• Instructor: Digital Dojo
• Target Audience:
  • Aspiring Web Developers
  • Cybersecurity Professionals
  • IT Security Analysts
  • JavaScript Enthusiasts
• Prerequisites:
  • Basic knowledge of JavaScript programming
  • Familiarity with web development concepts
  • Understanding of fundamental cybersecurity principles is beneficial but not mandatory

Curriculum Highlights

• Key Topics Covered:
  • Foundational security principles and common vulnerabilities in client-side scripting
  • Techniques to bypass client-side JavaScript protections
  • Prevention and mitigation strategies for cross-site scripting (XSS) and JavaScript injection attacks
  • Hashing limitations in JavaScript security and methods to enhance hash-based protections
• Key Skills Learned:
  • Understanding JavaScript vulnerabilities
  • Bypassing client-side JavaScript protections
  • Preventing and mitigating XSS and injection attacks
  • Implementing advanced security measures

Course Format

• Duration:
  • 33 minutes of on-demand video
• Format:
  • Self-paced online course
  • Access on mobile and TV
• Resources:
  • 7 articles
  • Certificate of completion