5.6 Securing Your Application

Security 101

Objectives:

• Describe the types of authentication
  • Something you have
  • Something you are
  • Something you know
• Describe HTTP (port 80) vs HTTPS (port 443)
• Describe security system types
  • Open access
  • API Key
  • User & Role Based Authentication
• Understand how to secure a password
• Describe what a session is and how it can be used
• Use BCrypt to generate salt and hashes

Basic User Authentication

Objectives

Lab: Secure your Shopping List Application

You're going to work on your shopping list application to secure it this afternoon.