--- title: "How Do I Understand and Defend Against Script Injection Attacks in ASP.NET | Microsoft Docs" author: JoeStagner description: "Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is perhaps the most troublesome security issue for web developers to tackle these days. In this video, Microsoft’s Joe Stagner pro..." ms.author: aspnetcontent manager: wpickett ms.date: 10/13/2009 ms.topic: article ms.assetid: 84c1e12c-2cc3-4bfe-bcc4-35381779a669 ms.technology: dotnet-webforms ms.prod: .net-framework msc.legacyurl: /web-forms/videos/how-do-i/how-do-i-understand-and-defend-against-script-injection-attacks-in-aspnet msc.type: video --- How Do I Understand and Defend Against Script Injection Attacks in ASP.NET ==================== by [Joe Stagner](https://github.com/JoeStagner) Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is perhaps the most troublesome security issue for web developers to tackle these days. In this video, Microsoft's Joe Stagner provides some examples of how dangerous XSS can really be and how ASP.NET helps you easily defend against XSS in your Web Applications. [▶ Watch video (40 minutes)](https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/ASP-NET-Site-Videos/how-do-i-understand-and-defend-against-script-injection-attacks-in-aspnet)