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
- Missing or improper authorization
- 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
A03 - Injection
- Injection principles
- Injection attacks
- SQL injection
- Parameter manipulation
- 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
A05 - Security Misconfiguration
- Configuration principles
- Server misconfiguration
- ASP.NET and IIS configuration best practices
- Cookie security
- XML entities
A06 - Vulnerable and Outdated Components
- Using vulnerable components
- Assessing the environment
- Hardening
- Untrusted functionality import
- Vulnerability management
Day 4
A07 - Identification and Authentication Failures
- Authentication
- Session management
- Password management
A08 - Software and Data Integrity Failures
- Integrity protection
- Subresource integrity
- Insecure deserialization
A09 - Security Logging and Monitoring Failures
- Logging and monitoring principles
- 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)
- Logging best practices
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?