15 What to do when you get hacked

In this chapter

  • How to detect cyberattacks
  • How to perform forensics in the aftermath of a cyberattack
  • How to learn from your mistakes

We’ve reached the end of the book. When I started writing it, I promised that everything in it would be useful security knowledge for web application developers. So if you have been reading closely and paying attention, you should be able to ride off into the sunset without ever having to worry about being hacked, right?

Well, no, unfortunately. Getting good at web application security is like riding a bike, in that you are inevitably going to fall off a few times and have to dust yourself off and keep trying. In this case, a large number of people with sticks are enthusiastically ...

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