Web application security masterclass in Java (WASECM-J)

Voraussetzungen

General Java and Web development.

Zielgruppe

Java developers working on Web applications.

Detaillierter Kursinhalt

Day 1

• Cyber security basics
  • What is security?
  • Threat and risk
  • Cyber security threat types – the CIA triad
  • Consequences of insecure software
  • Constraints and the market
• The OWASP Top Ten 2021
  • The OWASP Top 10 2021
  • A01 - Broken Access Control
    • Access control basics
    • Failure to restrict URL access
    • Confused deputy
    • File upload
    • Open redirects and forwards
    • Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • A02 - Cryptographic Failures
    • Information exposure
    • Cryptography for developers

Day 2

• A02 - Cryptographic Failures (continued)
  • Cryptography for developers
  • Certificates
• A03 - Injection
  • Injection principles
  • Injection attacks
  • SQL injection
  • Code injection
  • HTML injection - Cross-site scripting (XSS)

Day 3

• A03 - Injection (continued)
  • Input validation
• A04 - Insecure Design
  • The STRIDE model of threats
  • Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schroeder
  • Client-side security

Day 4

• A05 - Security Misconfiguration
  • Configuration principles
  • Server misconfiguration
  • Cookie security
  • XML entities
• A06 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components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
  • Password management
• A08 - Software and Data Integrity Failures
  • Integrity protection

Day 5

• A08 - Software and Data Integrity Failures (continued)
  • Subresource integrity
  • Insecure deserialization
• A09 - Security Logging and Monitoring Failures
  • Logging and monitoring principles
  • Insufficient logging
  • Case study – Plaintext passwords at Facebook
  • Log forging
  • Log forging – best practices
  • Case study – Log interpolation in log4j
  • Case study – The Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)
  • Case study – Log4Shell follow-ups (CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105)
  • Lab – Log4Shell
  • Logging best practices
  • Monitoring best practices
• A10 - Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)
  • Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)
  • Case study – SSRF and the Capital One breach
• Web application security beyond the Top Ten
  • Code quality
  • Denial of service
• Security testing
  • Security testing techniques and tools
    • Code analysis
    • Dynamic analysis
• Wrap up
  • Secure coding principles
  • And now what?