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Web application security masterclass in C#

CYDCsWeb5d
5 days
On-site or online
Hands-on
C#
Developer
Instructor-led
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labs

41 Labs

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17 Case Studies

Platform

Web

Audience

C# developers working on Web applications

Preparedness

General C# and Web development

Standards and references

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

Description

Your Web application written in C# 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 C#, and extended by core programming issues, discussing security pitfalls of the C# language and the ASP.NET framework.

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

So that nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing.

They said about us

”

Class was great!

Pace of the course was just right. Favourite part was reviewing of the ways to hack XML and JSON, and the ways to prevent that. Pretty relevant to what I am currently working on.

Employee at a Global Insurance Group , April, 2019

Norwood, MA, USA

Table of contents

  • Cyber security basics
  • 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
        • Insecure direct object reference (IDOR)
        • Path traversal
        • Lab – Insecure Direct Object Reference
        • Path traversal best practices
        • Authorization bypass through user-controlled keys
        • Case study – Authorization bypass on Facebook
        • Lab – Horizontal authorization
      • File upload
        • Unrestricted file upload
        • Good practices
        • Lab – Unrestricted file upload
      • Open redirects and forwards
        • Case study – Unvalidated redirect at Epic Games
        • Open redirects and forwards – best practices
      • Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)
        • Lab – Cross-site Request Forgery
        • CSRF best practices
        • CSRF defense in depth
        • Lab – CSRF protection with tokens
    • A02 – Cryptographic Failures
      • Information exposure
        • Exposure through extracted data and aggregation
        • Case study – Strava data exposure
        • Data exposure best practices
        • Data masking
        • Privacy violation
          • Privacy essentials
          • Related standards, regulations and laws in brief
          • Privacy violation and best practices
        • System information leakage
          • Leaking system information
          • Exposure through debug information
          • Exposure through files and directories
        • Information leakage through side channels
          • Exposure through side channels
          • Side channels and covert channels
        • Information exposure best practices
      • Cryptography for developers
        • Cryptography basics
        • Crypto APIs in C#
        • Elementary algorithms
          • Random number generation
            • Pseudo random number generators (PRNGs)
            • Cryptographically strong PRNGs
            • Seeding
            • Weak and strong PRNGs
            • Using random numbers in C#
            • Lab – Using random numbers in C#
            • True random number generators (TRNG)
            • Case study – Equifax credit account freeze
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A02 – Cryptographic Failures (continued)
      • Cryptography for developers
        • Elementary algorithms
          • Hashing
            • Hashing basics
            • Hashing in C#
            • Lab – Hashing in C#
        • Confidentiality protection
          • Symmetric encryption
            • Block ciphers
            • Modes of operation
            • Modes of operation and IV – best practices
            • Symmetric encryption in C#
            • Symmetric encryption in C# with streams
            • Lab – Symmetric encryption in C#
          • Asymmetric encryption
            • The RSA algorithm
              • Using RSA – best practices
              • RSA in C#
          • Combining symmetric and asymmetric algorithms
            • Some further key management challenges
      • Certificates
        • Certificates and PKI
        • X.509 certificates
    • 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
      • SQL injection best practices
        • Input validation
        • Parameterized queries
        • Lab – Using prepared statements
        • Additional considerations
        • Case study – Hacking Fortnite accounts
      • Code injection
        • OS command injection
          • Lab – Command injection
          • OS command injection best practices
          • Avoiding command injection with the right APIs
          • Lab – Command injection best practices
          • Case study – Command injection via ping
      • 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 – XSS in Fortnite accounts
        • XSS protection best practices
          • Protection principles – escaping
          • XSS protection APIs
          • Further XSS protection techniques
          • Lab – XSS fix / stored
          • Lab – XSS fix / reflected
          • Client-side protection principles
          • Additional protection layers – defense in depth
  • 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
        • Output sanitization
        • Encoding challenges
        • Unicode challenges
        • Lab – Encoding challenges
        • Validation with regex
        • Integer handling problems
          • Representing signed numbers
          • Integer visualization
          • Integer overflow
          • Lab – Integer overflow
          • Signed / unsigned confusion
          • Case study – The Stockholm Stock Exchange
          • Lab – Signed / unsigned confusion
          • Integer truncation
          • Best practices
            • Upcasting
            • Precondition testing
            • Postcondition testing
            • Using big integer libraries
            • Integer handling in C#
            • Lab – Checked arithmetics
            • Reflection without validation
            • Lab – Unsafe reflection
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A04 – 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
        • Lab – Client-side security
        • Same Origin Policy
          • Simple request
          • Preflight request
          • Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
          • Relaxing the Same Origin Policy
        • Frame sandboxing
          • Cross-Frame Scripting (XFS) attacks
          • Lab – Clickjacking
          • Clickjacking beyond hijacking a click
          • Clickjacking protection best practices
          • Lab – Using CSP to prevent clickjacking
        • Some further best practices
          • HTML5 security best practices
          • CSS security best practices
          • Ajax security best practices
        • JSON security
          • JSON validation
          • JSON injection
          • Dangers of JSONP
          • JSON/JavaScript hijacking
          • Best practices
          • Case study – ReactJS vulnerability in HackerOne
        • XML security
          • XML validation
          • XML injection
            • XPath injection
            • Blind XPath injection
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A05 – Security Misconfiguration
      • Configuration principles
      • Server misconfiguration
      • ASP.NET and IIS configuration best practices
        • ASP.NET configuration
        • IIS configuration
      • Cookie security
        • Cookie attributes
      • 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
          • Case study – XXE vulnerability in SAP Store
          • Preventing XXE
          • Lab – Prohibiting DTD
    • A06 – Vulnerable and Outdated Components
      • Using vulnerable components
      • Assessing the environment
      • Hardening
      • Untrusted functionality import
      • Vulnerability management
        • Patch management
        • Vulnerability databases
        • Lab – Finding vulnerabilities in third-party components
        • DevOps, the build process and CI / CD
        • Dependency checking in C#
        • Lab – Detecting vulnerable components
    • A07 – Identification and Authentication Failures
      • Authentication
        • Authentication basics
        • Multi-factor authentication
        • Case study – PayPal 2FA bypass
      • Session management
        • Session management essentials
        • Why do we protect session IDs – Session hijacking
        • Session fixation
      • Password management
        • Inbound password management
        • Outbound password management
          • Hard coded passwords
          • Best practices
          • Lab – Hardcoded password
    • A08 – Software and Data Integrity Failures
      • Integrity protection
        • Message Authentication Code (MAC)
          • Calculating HMAC in C#
          • Lab – Calculating MAC in C#
        • Digital signature
          • Digital signature with RSA
          • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
            • ECC basics
            • Digital signature with ECC
          • Digital signature in C#
            • Lab – Digital signature with ECDSA in C#
  • The OWASP Top Ten 2021
    • A08 – Software and Data Integrity Failures (continued)
      • 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
        • 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
      • Logging best practices
      • C# logging best practices
      • Monitoring best practices
      • Firewalls and Web Application Firewalls (WAF)
      • Intrusion detection and prevention
      • Case study – The Marriott Starwood data breach
    • 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
        • Code quality and security
        • Data handling
          • Arrays and ToString()
        • Function return values
          • Unchecked Return Value
        • Initialization and cleanup
          • Uninitialized variable
          • Class initialization cycles
          • Lab – Initialization cycles
        • Unreleased resource
          • Unreleased resource – Database
          • Unreleased resource – Synchronization
          • Unreleased resource – Various
        • Language elements
          • Using dangerous language elements
          • Using obsolete language elements
          • Portability flaw
        • Object oriented programming pitfalls
          • Accessibility modifiers
            • Are accessibility modifiers a security feature?
            • Accessibility modifiers – best practices
          • Inheritance and overriding
          • Implementing Equals()
          • Mutability
            • Lab – Mutable object
            • Readonly collections
        • Memory and pointers
          • Garbage collection
          • Null pointers
            • null dereference
            • null dereference – best practices
            • Using Nullable type parameters
            • Memory leak
            • Unmanaged memory leaks
      • Denial of service
        • Flooding
        • Resource exhaustion
        • Sustained client engagement
        • Denial of service problems in C#
        • Infinite loop
        • Economic Denial of Sustainability (EDoS)
        • Amplification
          • Other amplification examples
        • Algorithm complexity issues
          • Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)
            • Lab – ReDoS in C#
            • Dealing with ReDoS
  • 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
          • SQL injection tools
        • Fuzzing
  • Wrap up
    • Secure coding principles
      • Principles of robust programming by Matt Bishop
    • And now what?
      • Software security sources and further reading
      • .NET and C# resources

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3750 EUR / person

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