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Security testing Java Web applications

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3 days
On-site or online
Hands-on
Java
Developer
Tester
Instructor-led
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30 Labs

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8 Case Studies

Platform

Web

Audience

Java developers and testers working on Web applications

Preparedness

General Java and Web development, testing and QA

Standards and references

OWASP, SEI CERT, CWE and Fortify Taxonomy

Group size

12 participants

Outline

  • Cyber security basics
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
  • Security testing
  • Wrap up

What you will learn

  • Getting familiar with essential cyber security concepts
  • 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
  • Input validation approaches and principles
  • Understanding security testing methodology and approaches
  • Getting familiar with security testing techniques and tools

Description

Your Web application written in Java is tested functionally, 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.

Testing for security needs a remarkable software security expertise and 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.

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.A special focus is given to finding all discussed issues during testing, and an overview is provided on security testing methodology, techniques and tools.

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

So that nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing.

They said about us

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Highly recommended

At points very demanding, but well above the average. One would call it an advanced material, but given the importance of right coding habits from the beginning, should be available to all developers.

Open session participant , September, 2019

Helsinki, Finland

Table of contents

  • Cyber security basics
    • What is security?
    • Threat and risk
    • Cyber security threat types – the CIA triad
    • Consequences of insecure software
    • Security testing
      • Security testing vs functional testing
      • Manual and automated methods
      • Black box, white box, and hybrid testing
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A01 – Broken Access Control
      • Access control basics
      • Testing for authorization issues
      • Confused deputy
        • Insecure direct object reference (IDOR)
        • Path traversal
        • Lab – Insecure Direct Object Reference
        • Path traversal best practices
        • Authorization bypass through user-controlled keys
        • Lab – Horizontal authorization
        • Testing for confused deputy weaknesses
        • Lab – IDOR fuzzing with DotDotPwn
      • File upload
        • Unrestricted file upload
        • Good practices
        • Lab – Unrestricted file upload
        • Testing for file upload vulnerabilities
        • Lab – Creating polyglot files for testing
    • A03 – Injection
      • Injection principles
      • Injection attacks
      • SQL injection
        • SQL injection basics
        • Lab – SQL injection
        • Attack techniques
        • Content-based blind SQL injection
        • Time-based blind SQL injection
        • Testing for SQL injection
          • SQL injection tools
          • Lab – Using SQL injection tools
        • SQL injection best practices
          • Input validation
          • Parameterized queries
          • Lab – Using prepared statements
      • Code injection
        • OS command injection
          • OS command injection best practices
          • Using Runtime.exec()
          • Case study – Shellshock
          • Lab – Shellshock
          • Testing for command injection
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A03 – Injection (continued)
      • Input validation
        • Input validation principles
        • Denylists and allowlists
        • What to validate – the attack surface
        • Where to validate – defense in depth
        • When to validate – validation vs transformations
        • Validation with regex
        • Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)
        • Lab – ReDoS
        • Dealing with ReDoS
      • 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
        • Case study – Hacking Fortnite accounts
        • Case study – XSS in Fortnite accounts
        • Testing for XSS
          • Testing for XSS with tools
          • Lab – Using XSS testing tools
        • XSS protection best practices
          • Protection principles – escaping
          • XSS protection APIs in Java
          • Lab – XSS fix / stored
          • Lab – XSS fix / reflected
  • Security testing
    • Security testing methodology
      • Security testing – goals and methodologies
      • Overview of security testing processes
      • Identifying and rating assets
        • Preparation and scoping
        • Identifying assets
        • Identifying the attack surface
        • Assigning security requirements
        • Lab – Identifying and rating assets
      • Threat modeling
        • Attacker profiling
        • SDL threat modeling
        • Mapping STRIDE to DFD
        • DFD example
        • Lab – SDL threat modelling with OWASP Threat Dragon
        • Attack trees
        • Attack tree example
        • Lab – Crafting an attack tree
        • Misuse cases
        • Misuse case examples
        • Risk analysis
        • Lab – Risk analysis
      • Accomplishing the tests
      • Reporting, recommendations, and review
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A04 – Insecure Design
      • Client-side security
        • Frame sandboxing
          • Cross-Frame Scripting (XFS) attacks
          • Lab – Clickjacking
          • Clickjacking protection best practices
          • Lab – Using CSP to prevent clickjacking
        • Testing for client-side security weaknesses
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A07 – Identification and Authentication Failures
      • Session management
        • Session management essentials
        • Why do we protect session IDs – Session hijacking
        • Session fixation
        • Session ID best practices
        • Testing for session management issues
      • Password management
        • Inbound 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
          • Case study – The Ashley Madison data breach
            • The ultimate crack
            • Exploitation and the lessons learned
          • Password database migration
            • Testing for password management issues
            • Using password cracking tools
            • Password cracking in Windows
            • Lab – Password audit with John the Ripper
    • A08 – Software and Data Integrity Failures
      • 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
        • Testing for insecure deserialization
        • Property Oriented Programming (POP)
          • Creating a POP payload
          • Lab – Creating a POP payload
          • Lab – Using the POP payload
          • Summary – POP best practices
    • 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
      • Testing for logging issues
      • Monitoring best practices
    • A10 – Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)
      • Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)
      • Case study – SSRF and the Capital One breach
      • Testing for SSRF
  • Security testing
    • Security testing techniques and tools
      • Code analysis
        • Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
        • Lab – Using static analysis tools
      • Dynamic analysis
        • Security testing at runtime
        • Penetration testing
        • Stress testing
        • Dynamic analysis tools
          • Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
          • Web vulnerability scanners
          • Lab – Using web vulnerability scanners
          • Fuzzing
  • Wrap up
    • Secure coding principles
      • Principles of robust programming by Matt Bishop
      • Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schroeder
    • And now what?
      • Software security sources and further reading
      • Java resources
      • Security testing 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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