Securing Java EE Web Services | Java Web Services Security
Course Objectives
Students who attend Securing Java Web Services will leave the course armed with the skills required to recognize actual and potential software vulnerabilities, implement defenses for those vulnerabilities, and test those defenses for sufficiency. This course quickly introduces developers to the most common security vulnerabilities faced by web applications today. Each vulnerability is examined from a Java/JEE perspective through a process of describing the threat and attack mechanisms, recognizing associated vulnerabilities, and, finally, designing, implementing, and testing effective defenses. Multiple practical labs reinforce these concepts with real vulnerabilities and attacks. You are then challenged to design and implement the layered defenses they will need in defending their own applications.
This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in secure web application development, coding and design, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom.
Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn:
- Understand the consequences for not properly handling untrusted data such as denial of service, cross-site scripting, and injections
- Be able to test web applications with various attack techniques to determine the existence of and effectiveness of layered defenses
- Prevent and defend the many potential vulnerabilities associated with untrusted data
- Understand the concepts and terminology behind supporting, designing, and deploying secure services
- Appreciate the magnitude of the problems associated with service security and the potential risks associated with those problems
- Understand the currently accepted best practices for supporting the many security needs of services.
- Understand the vulnerabilities associated with authentication and authorization within the context of web services
- Be able to detect, attack, and implement defenses for authentication and authorization functionality
- Understand the dangers and mechanisms behind Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Injection attacks
- Be able to detect, attack, and implement defenses against XSS and Injection attacks
- Understand the concepts and terminology behind defensive, secure, coding
- Design and develop strong, robust authentication and authorization implementations within the context of JEE
- Understand the fundamentals of XML Digital Signature as well as how it can be used as part of the defensive infrastructure for web services
- Understand the fundamentals of XML Encryption as well as how it can be used as part of the defensive infrastructure for web services
- Understand and defend vulnerabilities that are specific to XML and XML parsers
Course Prerequisites
This is an intermediate -level programming course, designed for experienced Java developers who wish to get up and running on developing well defended software applications. Familiarity with Java and JEE is required and real world programming experience is highly recommended. Ideally students should have approximately 6 months to a year of Java and JEE working knowledge.
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: Scanning Web Applications
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
Session: Foundation for Securing Web Applications
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
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
- Tutorial: Working with Eclipse (JEE Version) and Apache TomEE 7x
- Tutorial: Working with the HSQL Database
- Lab: Case Study Setup and Review
Session: Applying Security to Services
Lesson: Service Challenges
- Services Overview
- Identity and Propagation
- Real-time Transactions
- Diverse Environments
- Information Protection
- Standards compliance
Lesson: Services and Security
- Security Policies
- Applicable OASIS Standards
- SAML
- SAML Usage Scenarios
- Oauth 2.0 and OpenID
Session: Defending Services
Lesson: Defending Web Services
- Web Service Security Exposures
- When Transport-Level Alone is NOT Enough
- Message-Level Security
- WS-Security Roadmap
- Web Service Attacks
- Web Service Appliance/Gateways
- Lab: Web Service Attacks
Lesson: Defending Rich Interfaces and REST
- How Attackers See Rich Interfaces
- Attack Surface Changes When Moving to Rich Interfaces and REST
- Bridging and its Potential Problems
- Three Basic Tenets for Safe Rich Interfaces
- OWASP REST Security Recommendations
Session: Bug Stomping 101
Lesson: Unvalidated Data
- Buffer Overflows
- Integer Arithmetic Vulnerabilities
- Unvalidated Data: Crossing Trust Boundaries
- Defending Trust Boundaries
- Whitelisting vs Blacklisting
- Lab: Defending Trust Boundaries
Lesson: A1: Injection
- Injection Flaws
- SQL Injection Attacks Evolve
- Drill Down on Stored Procedures
- Other Forms of Injection
- Minimizing Injection Flaws
- Lab: Defending Against SQL Injection
Lesson: A2: Broken Authentication
- Quality and Protection of Authentication Data
- Handling Passwords on Server Side
- SessionID Risk Reduction
- HttpOnly and Security Headers
- Lab: Defending Authentication
Lesson: A3: Sensitive Data Exposure
- Protecting Data Can Mitigate Impact
- In-Memory Data Handling
- Secure Pipes
- Failures in TLS/SSL Framework
- Lab: Defending Sensitive Data
Lesson: A4: XML External Entities (XXE)
- XML Parser Coercion
- XML Attacks: Structure
- XML Attacks: Injection
- Safe XML Processing
- Lab: Safe XML Processing
- Lab: Dynamic Loading Using XSLT (Optional)
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: Unsafe Direct Object References
- 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
- Lab: Defending Against XSS
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
- Lab: Error Handling
Lesson: Spoofing, CSRF, and Redirects
- Name Resolution Vulnerabilities
- Fake Certs and Mobile Apps
- Targeted Spoofing Attacks
- Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF)
- CSRF Defenses
- Lab: Cross-Site Request Forgeries
Session: Moving Forward with Service Security
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
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