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Web Security Essentials

Threat-model common web stacks, implement mitigations, and communicate risk without fear-mongering.

3 weeks · 18 hours · Live online · Mon · 19:00–21:00 GMT

From £420 GBP · Certificate on completion

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Overview

Security belongs in stand-ups, not only audits. You will practise STRIDE-lite thinking, cookie settings, CSRF defences, and dependency hygiene your pipeline can enforce.

What you work through

  • Content Security Policy iteration without breaking analytics
  • OAuth/OIDC mental models without treating tokens casually
  • Secrets scanning in CI with sensible baselines
  • Dependency review cadence tied to business risk
  • Incident tabletop tailored to SMB scale
  • Secure headers checklist for static hosts
  • Privacy-by-design notes aligned with UK GDPR expectations

Outcomes

  1. Produce a one-page threat model stakeholders actually read
  2. Configure headers and cookies that survive QA
  3. Prioritise vulnerability backlog without everything marked critical
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Lead contact

Elliot Fraser

Curriculum designer — security chapter lead.

Practical questions

Pen-testing?

Ethical hacking labs are out of scope; we focus on preventative engineering.

Compliance certifications?

Not included — we map concepts to ISO-style language only.

Limitation?

Mobile native security is mentioned but not exercised.

Participant notes

CSP module finally made our marketing site stop fighting the tag manager — Web Security Essentials was blunt in a useful way.

— Oliver

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