ASP.NET Core Advanced Security Data Protection

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course ASP.NET Core Advanced Security Data Protection. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Software security is a critical consideration when designing and developing web applications. While security breaches and threats can have serious consequences, there are a handful of steps you can take as a software developer to ensure you keep your applications safe. In this course, instructor Ervis Trupja covers practical techniques for securing data and controlling access to ASP.NET Core applications.

Explore some of the most common attacks and application vulnerabilities to learn more about how to protect yourself against them. Find out how to protect sensitive data in your applications using the data protection consumer API, as well as how to configure data protection settings, key storage, and more. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with highly marketable software development skills for extending data protection with the iKey, ISecret, and IAuthenticatedEncryptor interfaces.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Instructor

Ervis Trupja

Software Developer

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