Security for Web Developers

Part V. Locating Security Resources

This book has provided you with a wealth of information about security threats, sources, fixes, and monitoring techniques. You’ve discovered all sorts of ways in which hackers often gain access to your organization and make life difficult for everyone. The data breaches hackers create come in a wide range of forms and have significantly different effects. However, you really need more information about these issues and that’s what this part of the book is all about.

Chapter 16 discusses the methods you can use to track security threats. These threats are continuously changing and you need to keep on top of them. However, you also don’t want to succumb to information overload, so getting the right information as quickly as possible is essential. This chapter helps you locate the information you need without expending a lot of time or energy to do it.

Chapter 17 talks about training. Everyone requires training. In fact, if you look at a lot of the detailed reports on security breaches, you soon discover that more training might have prevented them in the first place. Of course, you need to know what sorts of security training to get and who should get it. This chapter fills in all the details for you.