Secure Java Web Application Development Overview
Course Objectives
Students who attend Secure Java Web Application Development will gain an understanding of how to recognize actual and potential software vulnerabilities, implement defenses for those vulnerabilities, and test those defenses for sufficiency. This course introduces most common security vulnerabilities faced by web applications today. Each vulnerability is examined from a coding perspective through a process of describing the threat and attack mechanisms, recognizing associated vulnerabilities, and, finally, designing, implementing, and testing effective defenses.
Guided by our application security expert, you will explore how to:
- Ensure that any hacking and bug hunting is performed in a safe and appropriate manner
- Identify defect/bug reporting mechanisms within their organizations
- Avoid common mistakes that are made in bug hunting and vulnerability testing
- Understand the concepts and terminology behind defensive, secure coding including the phases and goals of a typical exploit
- Develop an appreciation for the need and value of a multilayered defense in depth
- Understand potential sources for untrusted data
- Understand the consequences for not properly handling untrusted data such as denial of service, cross-site scripting, and injections
- Prevent and defend the many potential vulnerabilities associated with untrusted data
- Understand the vulnerabilities of associated with authentication and authorization
- Detect, attack, and implement defenses for authentication and authorization functionality and services
- Understand the dangers and mechanisms behind Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Injection attacks
- Detect, attack, and implement defenses against XSS and Injection attacks
- Understand the risks associated with XML processing, file uploads, and server-side interpreters and how to best eliminate or mitigate those risks
- Understand techniques and measures that can used to harden web and application servers as well as other components in your infrastructure
Course Prerequisites
This is an introductory-level course lecture and demonstration style course, designed to provide technical application project stakeholders with a first-look or baseline understanding of how to develop well defended web applications. Real-world programming experience is highly recommended for code reviews, but not required.
Take Before: Students should have basic development skills and a working knowledge in the following topics, or attend these courses as a pre-requisite:
- TT5102 JEE Web Essentials
Course Agenda
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: Bug Hunting Foundation
Lesson: Why Hunt Bugs?
- Security and Insecurity
- Dangerous Assumptions
- Attack Vectors
- Lab: Case Study in Failure
Lesson: Safe and Appropriate Bug Hunting/Hacking
- Working Ethically
- Respecting Privacy
- Bug/Defect Notification
- Bug Bounty Programs
Session: Moving Forward From Hunting Bugs
Lesson: Removing Bugs
- Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
- OWASP Top Ten Overview
- Web Application Security Consortium
- CERT Secure Coding Standards
- Bug Hunting Mistakes to Avoid
- Tools and Resources
Session: Foundation for Securing Web Applications
Lesson: Principles of Information Security
- Security Is a Lifecycle Issue
- Minimize Attack Surface Area
- Layers of Defense: Tenacious D
- Compartmentalize
- Consider All Application States
- Do NOT Trust the Untrusted
Session: Bug Stomping 101
Lesson: Unvalidated Data
- Buffer Overflows
- Integer Arithmetic Vulnerabilities
- Unvalidated Data: Crossing Trust Boundaries
- Defending Trust Boundaries
- Whitelisting vs Blacklisting
Lesson: A1: Injection
- Injection Flaws
- SQL Injection Attacks Evolve
- Drill Down on Stored Procedures
- Other Forms of Injection
- Minimizing Injection Flaws
Lesson: A2: Broken Authentication
- Quality and Protection of Authentication Data
- Handling Passwords on Server Side
- SessionID Risk Reduction
- HttpOnly and Security Headers
Lesson: A3: Sensitive Data Exposure
- Protecting Data Can Mitigate Impact
- In-Memory Data Handling
- Secure Pipes
- Failures in TLS/SSL Framework
Lesson: A4: XML External Entities (XXE)
- XML Parser Coercion
- XML Attacks: Structure
- XML Attacks: Injection
- Safe XML Processing
Lesson: A5: Broken Access Control
- Access Control Issues
- Excessive Privileges
- Insufficient Flow Control
- Unprotected URL/Resource Access
- Examples of Shabby Access Control
- Sessions and Session Management
- Lab: Spotlight: Verizon
Session: Bug Stomping 102
Lesson: A6: Security Misconfiguration
- System Hardening: IA Mitigation
- Application Whitelisting
- Least Privileges
- Anti-Exploitation
- Secure Baseline
Lesson: A7: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- XSS Patterns
- Persistent XSS
- Reflective XSS
- DOM-Based XSS
- Best Practices for Untrusted Data
Lesson: A8/9: Deserialization/Vulnerable Components
- Deserialization Issues
- Identifying Serialization and Deserializations
- Vulnerable Components
- Software Inventory
- Managing Updates
- Lab: Spotlight: Equifax
Lesson: A10: Insufficient Logging and Monitoring
- Fingerprinting a Web Site
- Error-Handling Issues
- Logging In Support of Forensics
- Solving DLP Challenges
Lesson: Spoofing, CSRF, and Redirects
- Name Resolution Vulnerabilities
- Fake Certs and Mobile Apps
- Targeted Spoofing Attacks
- Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF)
- CSRF Defenses
Session: Moving Forward
Lesson: Applications: What Next?
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous SW Errors
- Strength Training: Project Teams/Developers
- Strength Training: IT Organizations
- Leveraging Common AppSec Practices and Control
- Lab: Recent Incidents
- Lab: Spotlight: Capital One
Lesson: Making Application Security Real
- Cost of Continually Reinventing
- Paralysis by Analysis
- Actional Application Security
- Additional Tools for the Toolbox
Additional Topics: Time Permitting
Lesson: Cryptography Overview
- Strong Encryption
- Message Digests
- Encryption/Decryption
- Keys and Key Management
- NIST Recommendations
Lesson: Scanning Applications Overview
- Scanning Beyond the Applications
- Fingerprinting
- Vulnerability Scanning: Hunting for Bugs
- Reconnaissance Goals
- Data Collection Techniques
- Fingerprinting the Environment
- Enumerating the Web Application
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