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ASP.NET Core 5 Secure Coding Cookbook

By : Roman Canlas
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ASP.NET Core 5 Secure Coding Cookbook

By: Roman Canlas

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core developers are often presented with security test results showing the vulnerabilities found in their web apps. While the report may provide some high-level fix suggestions, it does not specify the exact steps that you need to take to resolve or fix weaknesses discovered by these tests. In ASP.NET Secure Coding Cookbook, you’ll start by learning the fundamental concepts of secure coding and then gradually progress to identifying common web app vulnerabilities in code. As you progress, you’ll cover recipes for fixing security misconfigurations in ASP.NET Core web apps. The book further demonstrates how you can resolve different types of Cross-Site Scripting. A dedicated section also takes you through fixing miscellaneous vulnerabilities that are no longer in the OWASP Top 10 list. This book features a recipe-style format, with each recipe containing sample unsecure code that presents the problem and corresponding solutions to eliminate the security bug. You’ll be able to follow along with each step of the exercise and use the accompanying sample ASP.NET Core solution to practice writing secure code. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to identify unsecure code causing different security flaws in ASP.NET Core web apps and you’ll have gained hands-on experience in removing vulnerabilities and security defects from your code.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Disabling caching for critical web pages

Performance is one of the critical metrics for ASP.NET Core web applications. As developers, we find ways to make pages load faster, and the concept of caching resources and pages is nothing new. Browsers implement caching based on the Cache-Control directive they receive from the server. However, there is a risk associated with caching pages that contain sensitive data. We must selectively determine which pages are in danger of leaking information and disable caching from these pages.

Getting ready

We will be using the Online Banking app we used in the previous recipe. Using Visual Studio Code, open the sample Online Banking app folder at \Chapter04\cache-data\before\OnlineBankingApp\.

You can perform the steps in this folder to disable caching on the Manage profile page.

How to do it…

Let's take a look at the steps for this recipe:

  1. From the starting exercise folder, launch Visual Studio Code by typing the...