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Web application security

  • CL-WSC
  • 3 days
  • Web

Description

As a developer, your duty is to write bulletproof code. However...

What if we told you that despite all of your efforts, the code you have been writing your entire career is full of weaknesses you never knew existed? What if, as you are reading this, hackers were trying to break into your code? How likely would they be to succeed? What if they could steal away your database and sell it on the black market?

This Web application security course will change the way you look at code. A hands-on training during which we will teach you all of the attackers’ tricks and how to mitigate them, leaving you with no other feeling than the desire to know more.

It is your choice to be ahead of the pack, and be seen as a game changer in the fight against cybercrime.

Participants attending this course will

  • Understand basic concepts of security, IT security and secure coding
  • Learn Web vulnerabilities beyond OWASP Top Ten and know how to avoid them
  • Learn about XML security
  • Learn client-side vulnerabilities and secure coding practices
  • Have a practical understanding of cryptography
  • Understand essential security protocols
  • Understand some recent attacks against cryptosystems
  • Understand security concepts of Web services
  • Learn about JSON security
  • Learn about typical coding mistakes and how to avoid them
  • Get information about some recent vulnerabilities in the Java framework
  • Learn about denial of service attacks and protections
  • Get sources and further readings on secure coding practices

Outline

  • IT security and secure coding
  • Web application security (OWASP Top Ten)
  • Client-side security
  • Practical cryptography
  • Security protocols
  • Security of Web services
  • Common coding errors and vulnerabilities
  • Denial of service
  • Principles of security and secure coding
  • Knowledge sources
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Course information

Preparedness

General Web application development

Exercises

Hands-on

Delivery methods

Onsite / Virtual classroom

Course reviews

Great overview and structured material and clear communication and teaching.

February 2019, Örebro

Wide range of subjects and good material.

June 2018, Helsinki

The trainer was professional and had great way of presenting,

June 2018, Helsinki

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Table of contents

  • Day 1
  • Day 2
  • Day 3
  • IT security and secure coding
    • Nature of security
    • What is risk?
    • IT security vs. secure coding
    • From vulnerabilities to botnets and cybercrime
      • Nature of security flaws
      • From an infected computer to targeted attacks
    • Classification of security flaws
      • Landwehr’s taxonomy
      • The Seven Pernicious Kingdoms
      • OWASP Top Ten
  • Web application security (OWASP Top Ten)
    • A1 - Injection
      • Injection principles
      • SQL injection
        • Exercise – SQL injection
        • Typical SQL Injection attack methods
        • Blind and time-based SQL injection
        • SQL injection protection methods
      • Other injection flaws
        • Command injection
        • Case study – ImageMagick
    • A2 - Broken authentication
      • Session handling threats
      • Session handling best practices
      • Setting cookie attributes – best practices
      • Cross site request forgery (CSRF)
        • Login CSRF
        • CSRF prevention
    • A3 - Sensitive data exposure
      • Sensitive data exposure
      • Transport layer security
        • Enforcing HTTPS
    • A4 - XML external entity (XXE)
      • XML Entity introduction
      • XML external entity attack (XXE) – resource inclusion
      • XML external entity attack – URL invocation
      • XML external entity attack – parameter entities
      • Exercise – XXE attack
      • Case study – XXE in Google Toolbar
    • A5 - Broken access control
      • Typical access control weaknesses
      • Insecure direct object reference (IDOR)
      • Exercise – Insecure direct object reference
      • Protection against IDOR
      • Case study – Facebook Notes
    • A6 - Security misconfiguration
      • Configuring the environment
      • Insecure file uploads
      • Exercise – Uploading executable files
      • Filtering file uploads – validation and configuration
    • A7 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
      • Persistent XSS
      • Reflected XSS
      • DOM-based XSS
      • Exercise – Cross Site Scripting
      • Exploitation: CSS injection
      • Exploitation: injecting the tag
      • XSS prevention
  • Web application security (OWASP Top Ten)
    • A8 - Insecure deserialization
      • Serialization and deserialization basics
      • Security challenges of deserialization
      • Issues with deserialization – JSON
    • A9 - Using components with known vulnerabilities
      • Vulnerability attributes
      • Common Vulnerability Scoring System – CVSS
    • A10 - Insufficient logging and monitoring
      • Detection and response
      • Logging and log analysis
      • Intrusion detection systems and Web application firewalls
  • Client-side security
    • JavaScript security
    • Same Origin Policy
    • Simple requests
    • Preflight requests
    • JavaScript usage
    • JavaScript Global Object
    • Dangers of JavaScript
    • Exercise – Client-side authentication
    • Client-side authentication and password management
    • Protecting JavaScript code
    • Exercise – JavaScript obfuscation
    • Clickjacking
      • Clickjacking
      • Exercise – IFrame, Where is My Car?
      • Protection against Clickjacking
      • Anti frame-busting – dismissing protection scripts
      • Protection against busting frame busting
    • AJAX security
      • XSS in AJAX
      • Script injection attack in AJAX
      • Exercise – XSS in AJAX
      • XSS protection in AJAX
      • Exercise CSRF in AJAX – JavaScript hijacking
      • CSRF protection in AJAX
      • MySpace worm
      • AJAX security guidelines
    • HTML5 security
      • New XSS possibilities in HTML5
      • Client-side persistent data storage
      • HTML5 clickjacking attack – text field injection
      • HTML5 clickjacking – content extraction
      • Form tampering
      • Exercise – Form tampering
      • Cross-origin requests
      • HTML proxy with cross-origin request
      • Exercise – Client side include
  • Practical cryptography
    • Rule #1 of implementing cryptography
    • Cryptosystems
      • Elements of a cryptosystem
    • Symmetric-key cryptography
      • Providing confidentiality with symmetric cryptography
      • Symmetric encryption algorithms
      • Modes of operation
      • Comparing the modes of operation
    • Other cryptographic algorithms
      • Hash or message digest
      • Hash algorithms
      • SHAttered
      • Message Authentication Code (MAC)
      • Providing integrity and authenticity with a symmetric key
      • Random number generation
        • Random numbers and cryptography
        • Cryptographically-strong PRNGs
        • Hardware-based TRNGs
    • Asymmetric (public-key) cryptography
      • Providing confidentiality with public-key encryption
      • Rule of thumb – possession of private key
      • The RSA algorithm
        • Introduction to RSA algorithm
        • Encrypting with RSA
        • Combining symmetric and asymmetric algorithms
        • Digital signing with RSA
    • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
      • Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack
      • Digital certificates against MitM attack
      • Certificate Authorities in Public Key Infrastructure
      • X.509 digital certificate
      • Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs)
      • Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
  • Security protocols
    • The TLS protocol
      • SSL and TLS
      • Usage options
      • Security services of TLS
      • SSL/TLS handshake
    • Protocol-level vulnerabilities
      • BEAST
      • CRIME
      • TIME
      • TIME without MitM
      • BREACH
      • Protecting against CRIME/TIME/BREACH
      • FREAK
      • FREAK – attack against SSL/TLS
      • Logjam attack
    • Padding oracle attacks
      • Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks
      • Padding oracle attack
      • CBC decryption
      • Padding oracle example
      • Lucky Thirteen
      • POODLE
  • Security of Web services
    • Securing web services – two general approaches
    • SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
    • Security of RESTful web services
      • Authenticating users in RESTful web services
      • Authentication with JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
      • Authorization with REST
      • Vulnerabilities in connection with REST
    • XML security
      • Introduction
      • XML parsing
      • XML injection
        • (Ab)using CDATA to store XSS payload in XML
        • Exercise – XML injection
        • Protection through sanitization and XML validation
        • XML bomb
        • Exercise – XML bomb
      • XML Signature
        • XML Signature introduction
        • XML Signature structure
        • Hash collision with XML Digital Signature
        • XML canonicalization
        • Signing XML documents – spot the bug!
        • XML Signature Wrapping (XSW) attack
        • XML Signature Wrapping – countermeasures
    • JSON security
      • Embedding JSON server-side
      • JSON injection
      • JSON hijacking
      • Case study – XSS via spoofed JSON element
  • Common coding errors and vulnerabilities
    • Improper use of security features
      • Typical problems related to the use of security features
      • Password management
        • Exercise – Weakness of hashed passwords
        • Password management and storage
        • Brute forcing
        • Special purpose hash algorithms for password storage
        • Case study – the Ashley Madison data breach
        • Typical mistakes in password management
      • Insufficient anti-automation
        • Captcha
        • Captcha weaknesses
  • Denial of service
    • DoS introduction
    • Asymmetric DoS
    • Case study – Denial-of-service against ICDs
      • Denial-of-service: battery drain
    • Case study – ReDos in Stack Exchange
    • Hashtable collision attack
      • Using hashtables to store data
      • Hashtable collision
  • Principles of security and secure coding
    • Matt Bishop’s principles of robust programming
    • The security principles of Saltzer and Schroeder
  • Knowledge sources
    • Secure coding sources – a starter kit
    • Vulnerability databases

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