Detailed Course Outline
Day 1
- Cyber security basics
- What is security?
- Threat and risk
- Cyber security threat types – the CIA triad
- Consequences of insecure software
- The OWASP Top Ten 2021
- The OWASP Top 10 2021
- A01 - Broken Access Control
- Access control basics
- Confused deputy
- File upload
- Open redirects and forwards
- Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- A02 - Cryptographic Failures
- Information exposure
- Cryptography for developers
Day 2
- A03 - Injection
- Injection principles
- Injection attacks
- SQL injection
- Code injection
- HTML injection - Cross-site scripting (XSS)
- A04 - Insecure Design
- The STRIDE model of threats
- Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schroeder
- Client-side security
- A05 - Security Misconfiguration
- Configuration principles
- Server misconfiguration
- Cookie security
- XML entities
Day 3
- A06 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components
- Using vulnerable components
- Assessing the environment
- Hardening
- Untrusted functionality import
- Vulnerability management
- A07 - Identification and Authentication Failures
- Authentication
- Session management
- A08 - Software and Data Integrity Failures
- Integrity protection
- Subresource integrity
- Insecure deserialization
- A09 - Security Logging and Monitoring Failures
- Logging and monitoring principles
- A10 - Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- Case study – SSRF and the Capital One breach
- Wrap up
- Secure coding principles
- And now what?