Fundamentals of Cybersecurity (2020)

Lesson 8.2 Developer Tools

Description

In this lesson, students will learn about and use the developer tools in a browser. Web developers actually use these to help build and test websites. Cyber professionals need to be very familiar with the different ways of looking at how sites and apps function so they can use various tools to detect vulnerabilities or even detect attacks as they are starting.

Objective

Students will be able to:

Identify major developer tools within the inspect element
Explain the major difference between view page source and what is rendered in the inspect tools
Explain in general terms what each major tool in the inspect area can show a developer
Explain how the developer tools can help web developers build and maintain sites, and how understanding the tools can potentially help cyber professionals who are trying to keep sites and data secure