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User Input Validation for Go Applications

Secure your Go applications against malicious input attacks. This course will teach you comprehensive input validation techniques.

Mike VanSickle - Pluralsight course - User Input Validation for Go Applications
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What you'll learn

Many Go applications fall victim to security vulnerabilities due to improper handling of user input, leading to data breaches, injection attacks, and system compromises. In this course, User Input Validation for Go Applications, you'll learn to implement robust validation strategies to protect your apps. First, you'll explore input sanitization and basic type checking. Next, you'll discover schema validation and strongly typed structures. Finally, you'll learn how to handle file uploads and prevent injection attacks. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of input validation needed to build secure, resilient Go applications.

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Mike VanSickle - Pluralsight course - User Input Validation for Go Applications
Mike VanSickle

Michael VanSickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He is a mechanical engineer by training and a software engineer by choice. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and user experience design.

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