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Broken authentication and session management countermeasures

Broken authentication and session management countermeasures

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Broken authentication and session management countermeasures

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- [Instructor] There are a number of well-established authentication and session management solutions available to you as a software developer, in the form of software security frameworks. There is no need to write your own custom code from scratch. Software frameworks provide generic but necessary features such as security through an easy-to-use abstraction. That is, framework users can simply utilize the interfaces of the frameworks to take advantage of its professional software implementation of the needed features. Frameworks also allow its users to easily extend their existing capabilities to satisfy specific requirements in a particular domain better. When choosing security frameworks for your own project, keep in mind that they meet a certain standard, such as OWASP's Application Security Verification Standard, or ASVS. ASVS addresses both authentication and session management. Some additional criteria to use when searching for the best framework for your authentication and…

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