CIS 4369 - Web Application Security

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: CIS 4362 - Applied Cryptography

CNT 3004C Introduction to Computer Networks
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. Web security issues, such as SQL injection and cross site scripting along with how to defend and protect against such attacks is covered. Securing the web client, the communication channel, and the web servers is reviewed in detail.