Learn the fundamentals of verifying user authenticity, best practices for managing passwords and user logins, and how to prevent unauthorized access to web pages and actions.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Verify identity and access privileges
- The importance of authentication
- Authentication factors
- Credentials
- Multi-factor authentication
- Pitfalls of multi-factor authentication
- Biomertric authentication
- Password hashing
- Brute force attacks
- Speed and throttling
- Dictionary attacks
- Salted passwords
- Strong passwords and password managers
- Password requirements
- Password theft and reuse
- Handle forgotten passwords
- Insecure references
- Regulating access privileges
- Cookies and sessions
- Deny lists and geofilters
- Single sign-on services
- Next steps
Taught by
Kevin Skoglund
