Hardening Nginx with Security Headers
Add HTTP security headers in Nginx to defend against clickjacking, MIME sniffing, and content injection attacks.
Headers as a Defense Layer
Beyond TLS and authentication, modern browsers honor security headers that instruct them how to behave. Nginx can inject these on every response with the add_header directive.
Preventing MIME Sniffing
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff stops browsers from guessing a resource's type, blocking attacks that disguise a script as an image.
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;All lessons in this course
- Securing Nginx with SSL/TLS
- HTTP/2 & Nginx Optimization
- Basic Authentication & Access Control
- Hardening Nginx with Security Headers