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Learn About CSRF Attacks

Learn how to identify and the ways to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks from a system.

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    Beginner

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    Approx. 1 hour

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  • Prerequisites

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About this course

Awareness of Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks is an important defense measure to prevent malicious actors from taking advantage of another user’s system. To protect a web application from such vulnerability, it is important to know how and where to identify CSRF attacks and ways to eradicate them from your system.

Skills you'll gain

  • Identify Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks

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1 quizzes
  • article Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attacks
    article CSRF Tutorial
    quiz Identify CSRF Attacks
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Sarai Fernandez
Computer Science Domain Manager at Codecademy
Sarai is the Computer Science Domain Manager at Codecademy. Sarai has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems with a Human Computer Interaction Concentration from Stanford University. While much of her technical knowledge comes from the courses she took in college, she learned Python from Codecademy!
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