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Web application security in Java

CYDJvWeb3d
3 days
On-site or online
Hands-on
Java
Developer
Instructor-led
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labs

27 Labs

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13 Case Studies

Platform

Web

Audience

Java developers working on Web applications

Preparedness

General Java and Web development

Standards and references

OWASP, SEI CERT, CWE and Fortify Taxonomy

Group size

12 participants

Outline

  • Cyber security basics
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2025
  • Wrap up

What you will learn

  • Getting familiar with essential cyber security concepts
  • Managing vulnerabilities in third party components
  • Understanding Web application security issues
  • Detailed analysis of the OWASP Top Ten elements
  • Putting Web application security in the context of Java
  • Going beyond the low hanging fruits
  • Understanding how cryptography supports security
  • Learning how to use cryptographic APIs correctly in Java
  • Input validation approaches and principles

Description

Your Web application written in Java works as intended, so you are done, right? But did you consider feeding in incorrect values? 16Gbs of data? A null? An apostrophe? Negative numbers, or specifically -1 or -2^31? Because that’s what the bad guys will do – and the list is far from complete.

Handling security needs a healthy level of paranoia, and this is what this course provides: a strong emotional engagement by lots of hands-on labs and stories from real life, all to substantially improve code hygiene. Mistakes, consequences, and best practices are our blood, sweat and tears.

The curriculum goes through the common Web application security issues following the OWASP Top Ten but goes far beyond it both in coverage and the details.All this is put in the context of Java, and extended by core programming issues, discussing security pitfalls of the Java language and the runtime environment.

So that you are prepared for the forces of the dark side.

So that nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing.

They said about us

”

I didn't expect this coming

I have been coding for 15 years and never thought I would still come across such important security cornerstones.

Participant , December, 2019

Stockholm, Sweden

Table of contents

  • Cyber security basics
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2025
    • A01 – Broken Access Control
      • Access control basics
      • Case study – Broken authn/authz in Apache OFBiz
      • Confused deputy
        • Insecure direct object reference (IDOR)
        • Path traversal
        • Case study – RCE via path traversal in Apache OFBiz
        • Lab – Insecure Direct Object Reference
        • Path traversal best practices
        • Authorization bypass through user-controlled keys
        • Case study – Remote takeover of Nexx garage doors and alarms
        • Lab – Horizontal authorization
      • File upload
        • Unrestricted file upload
        • Good practices
        • Lab – Unrestricted file upload
      • Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)
        • Case study – SSRF in Ivanti Connect Secure
    • A02 – Security Misconfiguration
      • Configuration principles
      • Web security configuration issues
        • Content Security Policy
        • Fetch directives
        • Source allowlisting
        • Strict CSP: using nonces and hashes
        • CSP best practices
      • Cookie security
        • Cookie attributes
      • Secrets management
        • Hard coded passwords
        • Best practices
        • Lab – Hardcoded password
      • XML entities
        • DTD and the entities
        • Entity expansion
        • External Entity Attack (XXE)
          • File inclusion with external entities
          • Server-Side Request Forgery with external entities
          • Lab – External entity attack
          • Preventing XXE
          • Lab – Prohibiting DTD
          • Case study – XXE vulnerability in Ivanti products
    • A03 – Software Supply Chain Failures
      • Using vulnerable components
      • Untrusted functionality import
      • Supply chain security and the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
      • SBOM examples
      • Case study – The Polyfill.io supply chain attack
      • Vulnerability management
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2025
    • A04 – Cryptographic Failures
      • Cryptography for developers
        • Cryptography basics
        • Java Cryptographic Architecture (JCA) in brief
        • Elementary algorithms
          • Hashing
            • Hashing basics
            • Hashing in Java
            • Lab – Hashing in JCA
          • Random number generation
            • Pseudo random number generators (PRNGs)
            • Cryptographically secure PRNGs
            • Weak and strong PRNGs in Java
            • Lab – Using random numbers in Java
        • Confidentiality protection
          • Symmetric encryption
            • Block ciphers
            • Modes of operation
            • Modes of operation and IV – best practices
            • Symmetric encryption in Java
            • Symmetric encryption in Java with streams
            • Lab – Symmetric encryption in JCA
          • Asymmetric encryption
          • Combining symmetric and asymmetric algorithms
    • A05 – Injection
      • Input validation
        • Input validation principles
        • What to validate – the attack surface
        • Where to validate – defense in depth
        • When to validate – validation vs transformations
      • SQL injection
        • SQL injection basics
        • Lab – SQL injection
        • SQL injection best practices
          • Input validation
          • Parameterized queries
          • Lab – Using prepared statements
          • Case study – SQL injection in Fortra FileCatalyst
      • Code injection
        • OS command injection
          • OS command injection best practices
          • Using Runtime.exec()
          • Case study – Shellshock
          • Lab – Shellshock
          • Case study – Command injection in VMware Aria
      • HTML injection – Cross-site scripting (XSS)
        • Cross-site scripting basics
        • Cross-site scripting types
          • Persistent cross-site scripting
          • Reflected cross-site scripting
          • Client-side (DOM-based) cross-site scripting
        • Lab – Stored XSS
        • Lab – Reflected XSS
        • XSS protection best practices
          • Protection principles – escaping
          • Lab – XSS fix / stored
          • Lab – XSS fix / reflected
          • Case study – XSS vulnerabilities in DrayTek Vigor routers
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2025
    • A06 – Insecure Design
      • The STRIDE model of threats
      • Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schroeder
        • Economy of mechanism
        • Fail-safe defaults
        • Complete mediation
        • Open design
        • Separation of privilege
        • Least privilege
        • Least common mechanism
        • Psychological acceptability
      • Client-side security
        • Frame sandboxing
          • Cross-Frame Scripting (XFS) attacks
          • Lab – Clickjacking
          • Clickjacking protection best practices
          • Lab – Using CSP to prevent clickjacking
    • A07 – Authentication Failures
      • Authentication
        • Authentication basics
        • Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
        • Case study – The InfinityGauntlet attack
      • Password management
        • Storing account passwords
        • Password in transit
        • Lab – Is just hashing passwords enough?
        • Dictionary attacks and brute forcing
        • Salting
        • Adaptive hash functions for password storage
        • Lab – Using adaptive hash functions in JCA
      • Password policy
    • A08 – Software and Data Integrity Failures
      • Integrity protection
        • Message Authentication Code (MAC)
          • Calculating MAC in Java
          • Lab – Calculating MAC in JCA
        • Digital signature
          • Digital signature with RSA
          • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
            • ECC basics
            • Digital signature with ECC
          • Digital signature in Java
            • Lab – Digital signature with ECDSA in JCA
      • Subresource integrity
        • Importing JavaScript
        • Lab – Importing JavaScript
        • Case study – The British Airways data breach
      • Insecure deserialization
        • Serialization and deserialization challenges
        • Integrity – deserializing untrusted streams
        • Integrity – deserialization best practices
        • Look ahead deserialization
        • Property Oriented Programming (POP)
          • Creating a POP payload
          • Lab – Creating a POP payload
          • Lab – Using the POP payload
          • Case study – Deserialization RCEs in NextGen Mirth Connect
  • Wrap up
    • Secure coding principles
      • Principles of robust programming by Matt Bishop
    • And now what?
      • Software security sources and further reading
      • Java resources

Pricing

3 days Session Price

2250 EUR / person

  • Live, instructor led classroom training
  • Discussion and insight into the hacker’s mindset
  • Hands-on practice using case studies based on high-profile hacks and live lab exercises
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