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CourseLearn About CSRF Attacks
Learn how to identify and the ways to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks from a system.
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Average based on combined completion rates — individual pacing in lessons, projects, and quizzes may vary<1 hourPrerequisites
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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.
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- Identify Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks
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