Web Application Security: Exploitation and Countermeasures for Modern Web Applications

Web Application Security walks you through a number of techniques used by talented hackers and bug bounty hunters to break into applications, then teaches you the techniques and processes you can implement in your own software to protect against such hackers.

This book is designed to be read from cover to cover, but can also be used as an on-demand reference for particular types of recon techniques, attacks, and defenses against attacks. Ultimately, this book is written to aid the reader in becoming better at web application security in a way that is practical, hands-on, and follows a logical progression such that no significant prior security experience is required.