Web Security for Developers

The web is a great software delivery platform, making your software available to users around the world with zero installation and easily deployed updates. Unfortunately, it also exposes you to an army of adversaries - some human, some bot - who have darker goals: to cause loss to your data or reputation, subvert your resources for their own gain or attack your user base.

This course helps you to develop a security-oriented mindset. It explores the way the web works, so you have a way to understand how various vulnerabilities arise. Then, with those foundations laid, it covers a range of common and less common vulnerabilities, how an attack based on them would be constructed, and how you can recognize and defend against them.

Audience:

This course is aimed at web developers.

Prerequisites:

You should have basic web development experience.

About the autor and instructor: Tore Nestenius

Tore has worked as a consultant since 1997 and is a very knowledgeable system developer and has in the past worked for large companies like Ericsson and Flextronics. Early in his career, Tore Nestenius started Programmers Heaven - a portal with over 750 000 monthly users. He’s behind several other successful projects like CodePedia - a Wiki for developers, the Open Source project TNValidate, and the C# School e-book with over 100 000 downloads.

Introduction

The reality
What might an attacker want?
Social Engineering

HTTPS

Man-in-the-middle attacks
Certificates
Certificate pinning
Securing cookies
HTTP Strict Transport Security header

Encoding

Character encoding
Unicode
Encoding

Cross Site Scripting

Stored XSS
Reflected XSS
DOM Based XSS
XSS Preventions

Content Security Policy

Headers and directives
CSP Reporting

Cross site request forgery (CSRF)

CSRF Prevention
Synchronizer Token Pattern
Double Submit Cookies

Injections

SQL Injections
File path injections

Authentication & Authorisation

OAuth
OpenID Connect
Signed requests
Form based authentication
Securing the session

Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks

Network attacks
Application level attacks
Regular Expression attacks
XML DoS attacks
Decompression bombs

Password management

Secure password storage
Hashing
Salt and pepper

Information leakage

Error handling
Source control leaks
SQL Timing attacks
Login timing attacks
Response header leakage
Search engine leakage
Server leaks

Logging & monitoring

Logging
Monitoring
Knowing when the site is under attack
Honey pots

Attacking our site

How can we start hacking our self
Hacking tools

Penetration testing

Hack your self

Price:	16,900 NOK
Included items:	Course documentation, exercises, lunch and refreshments for in class events only
Hours	09.00-16.00
Durance:	2 days
Languages	English