Secure Software Design is an intensive security training course, essential for experienced software designers and architects who need to engineer secure enterprise-supported web applications. In addition to teaching basic vulnerabilities, this course digs deep into sound processes and practices that apply to the entire software development lifecycle.
In this course, students thoroughly examine issues and risks associated with web applications, including XML processing, rich interfaces, and both RESTful and SOAP-based web services. Students will repeatedly attack and then understand the tactical and strategic defensive measure for various assets associated with fully functional web applications and web services. This hands-on approach drives home the mechanics of how to secure web applications in the most practical of terms.
Security is costly, and this course focuses both on how to effectively use resources and where to apply those resources. During the course, students are presented with a list of actionable items to fully leverage the results of applying secure practices. Attack phases and types of defensive controls are related to the activities that the students participate in during the lab and group activities. Students will develop an understanding of the importance of defaulting to a secure position and deviating from that as is appropriate. The rationale for deviating from the most secure position is based on understanding risk and threats.
Security experts agree that the least effective approach to security is "penetrate and patch". It is far more effective to "bake" security into an application throughout its lifecycle. After spending significant time trying to defend a poorly designed (from a security perspective) web application, developers are ready to learn how to build secure web applications starting at project inception. The final portion of this course builds on the previously learned mechanics for building defenses by exploring how design and analysis can be used to build stronger applications from the beginning of the software lifecycle.
Students who attend Secure Software Design will leave the course armed with the skills required to recognize software vulnerabilities (actual and potential) and design defenses for those vulnerabilities. This course quickly introduces developers to the various types of threats against their software. The concept and process of Threat Modeling is introduced as a key enabler for architecting effective and appropriate security for software and information assets.
Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom. Guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:
Need different skills or topics? If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate. We offer additional application development, secure coding, secure software development, hacking, database security, bug hunting and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs. Our team will collaborate with you to understand your needs and will target the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.
This is an intermediate -level design and analysis course, designed for experienced web developers who wish to get up and running on designing well-defended software applications. Real-world programming experience is highly recommended for code reviews, but is not required.
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Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Topics, agenda and labs are subject to change, and may adjust during live delivery based on audience interests, skill-level and participation.
Session: Foundation for Securing Web Applications
Lesson: Why Hunt Bugs?
Lesson: Removing Bugs
Lesson: Principles of Information Security
Session: Understanding Vulnerabilities 101
Lesson: Unvalidated Data
Lesson: A1: Injection
Lesson: A2: Broken Authentication
Lesson: A3: Sensitive Data Exposure
Lesson: A4: XML External Entities (XXE)
Lesson: A5: Broken Access Control
Session: Understanding Vulnerabilities 102
Lesson: A6: Security Misconfiguration
Lesson: A7: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Lesson: A8/9: Deserialization/Vulnerable Components
Lesson: A10: Insufficient Logging and Monitoring
Lesson: Spoofing, CSRF, and Redirects
Lesson: Cryptography Overview
Session: Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL)
Lesson: SDL Overview
Lesson: SDL In Action
Lesson: Asset Analysis
Lesson: Threat Modeling Overview
Lesson: Threat Modeling in Action
Session: Moving Forward with Application Security
Lesson: Applications: What Next?
Lesson: Making Application Security Real
Additional Topics: Time Permitting
Lesson: Security Design Patterns
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