CIS 4369 - Web Application Security

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: CIS 4362 - Applied Cryptography
Course Description: This course’s main focus is on securing web-based communications and applications. The security vulnerabilities involved in applications such as e-commerce that are based on communicating sensitive data over the Internet is covered. Securing the web client, the communication channel, and the web servers such as Apache and IIS is reviewed in detail. In addition, the inner working of SSL is discussed and its set up is practiced.