Should you learn ethical hacking as a web developer?

Question

In my opinion we should at least learn enough to keep ourselves and our future projects secure from hacking attacks. But what are your thoughts about this? Please don't hesitate to give your opinion

Answer 1

There are some famous attacks such as CSRF and XSS etc, but there are ways you can solve them, which you can find online, udemy teachers show you the best practices, so they might show you how to prevent those attacks, such as use cookies instead of localstorage for tokens etc etc etc (and many more ways) so search for those attacks, learning hacking isnt necessary.

Answer 2

It's not compulsory.

Answer 3

No, you shouldn't. That's not your job. You are part of a team I guess. Hire a cybersecurity expert if you feel you need to(unless you already have one or you realize that you are not the one that hires people). That's my point of view.

Answer 4

It will depend on what you are learning on ethical hacking..

Hacking is a very broad term. It may be network side, social engineering, exploitation on systems and so on. Learning all that is another career path.

There is also web hacking which would be an advantage. I mean you would understand various attacks and couter measures to secure your site.

Answer 5

Ömer Ayhan it would be great if u can do both, but its your choice, it isnt necessary to do both. But if u wanna, learn hacking too, u'll get more job opportunities.

Answer 6

As a web developer , Ethical hacking is not compulsory . But you want to learn Ethical hacking & specially web hacking , then web development is compulsory.
Mostly JavaScript and PHP. 🔥

Answer 7

maf but wouldn't it be good to learn at least a bit for doing some testing on your own?

Answer 8

if youre a geek in general then yes. otherwise if youre a normy then its not necessary.

Answer 9

If you want to be a security professional then this will help you ☕

Answer 10

U should use asp.net for backend or server like stuff , it is paid and very well secured

Answer 11

I mean.. I'd say no because you could always hire a worker but if you're really interested in learning ethical hacking then you should totally go for it.