Securing .Net Web Applications

Learning Objectives

Students who attend Securing .Net Web Applications 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 introduces developers to the most common security vulnerabilities faced by web applications today. Each vulnerability is examined from a .Net perspective through a process of describing the threat and attack mechanisms, recognizing associated vulnerabilities, and, finally, designing, implementing, and testing effective defenses. 

Practical labs reinforce these concepts with real vulnerabilities and attacks.  Students are then challenged to design and implement the layered defenses they will need in defending their own applications. There is an emphasis on the underlying vulnerability patterns since the technologies, use cases, and methods of attack as constantly changing. The patterns remain the same through all the change and flux.

Working in a dynamic, lab-intensive hands-on coding environment students will learn to:

• ·       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
• ·       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 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
• ·       Learn the strengths, limitations, and use for tools such as code scanners, dynamic scanners, and web application firewalls (WAFs)
• ·       Understand techniques and measures that can used to harden web and application servers as well as other components in your infrastructure

Who Should Attend

This is an intermediate -level .Net secure programming course, designed for experienced .Net developers who wish to get up and running on developing well defended software applications.  Familiarity with C# is required and real world programming experience is highly recommended.  Ideally students should have approximately 6 months to a year of .Net development practical experience. 

Take Before:  Incoming students should have skills equivalent to the topics in, or should have recently attended, this course as a pre-reqisuite:

• TTCN2100 Introduction to C# .Net Programming

We recommend that incoming students consider taking the following course first, although it is not a pre-requisite :

• TT8300-N: Ehtical Hacking: Bug Hunting in .Net Web Applications

Take After: We offer a variety of introductory through advanced security, development, project management, engineering, architecture and design courses that serve as an excellent follow on to this course.  Please inquire for details.

• TT8324: Developing Secure Software Applications
• Test Driven Development / Agile training
• Web Services, REST & Services training