Security is a full-stack issue, including user interfaces, APIs, web servers, network infrastructure, etc. By taking control of the powerful libraries, frameworks, and tools in the Python ecosystem, you can protect your system from top to bottom. This book lists a large number of examples, with clear illustrations and rich code, telling you exactly how to protect Python-based Web applications.
Written by veteran security expert Dennis Byrne, Full Stack Security with Python explains everything you need to know to secure Python and Django-based web applications, explaining security terminology and demystifying algorithms.
The book starts with a clear explanation of the basics of encryption, and then proceeds step by step to explain how to implement multiple layers of defense, secure user authentication, secure third-party access, and analyze how to protect applications from common hacker attacks.
As the author said, there are many books about Python, but not many books about Python security. Even if there are, most of them use Python as a tool to serve security automation, and there are almost no security-related books on Python development. This book is the result of the joint efforts of the author and his colleagues under this scenario. It introduces readers in detail to more security knowledge beyond the Python language itself, and how to use Python to achieve secure development. This is mainly by making full use of the security immunity factors of Python itself and other libraries, frameworks and tools, making the products developed more resistant to attacks.
Excerpted from the translator's preface of "Python Full Stack Security"
