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Web Application Hardening, Forensics, and Incident Response

What you'll learn

This learning path looks at DoS attacks against websites, how to protect your or your beneficiaries' web applications from them, as well as how to collect and analyze website logs to detect attempted attacks.

Last updated on: 20 August 2024

Modules

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Introduction

Read the learning path overview, objectives, associated threats, and prerequisites

Module 1

Website Hardening

We explore some initial steps you can take to make your website more resilient to attack

Module 2

Website Logging for Security

Website logs can be crucial in identifying potential attacks and attackers. We look at how to effectively use them

Module 3

Denial of Service Incident Response

If a website comes under a sustained denial of service attack, it may be vital to act quickly to get the site back up and running. This subtopic describes some practices to allow site owners to recover from a DoS attack

Module 4

Hacking Incident Response

We look at some ways in which we can investigate and recover from an attack that targeted our website