June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
7h 5m
English
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Programming background
Before we proceed further in this chapter, I have to address the topic of your programming background in detail to help and guide you in the right direction as regards programming languages. I was a programmer for around 10 years before I turned into a full-time cyber-security expert. I can tell you that the experience that I acquired during my programming career greatly helped me in becoming successful in the field of application security. After all, how can you give an expert advice if you've never developed a web application in your life?
Programming languages are divided into categories, and and they share a lot of similarities (more than you can imagine). Later in this chapter, I will show you the coding security ...