Web App Hacking: Sensitive Data Exposure
This course helps to understand various types of sensitive data exposure in modern web applications. You'll learn about testing for sensitive data exposure, common problems, and countermeasures.
What you'll learn
This course helps to understand the various types of sensitive data exposures in modern web applications, testing exposure, common problems and countermeasures.
Table of contents
Sensitive data exposure is when an organization unknowingly exposes sensitive data. This can sometimes be a result of unintentional security incidents which lead to unlawful loss or alteration of data. This is different than a data breach in the way that data breaches are intentional.
In this course you will learn how attackers learn credentials, how they can read sensitive information, how to extract metadata from publicly available data and insecure communication channels between the browser and web application.
This course is for any data engineers or IT specialists that want to learn more about cybersecurity and how to prevent data exposures and breaches.