Securing Your Web Applications

This course is designed to introduce the student to Web application security. It presents today's most critical Web application security vulnerabilities as well as principles for secure coding and solutions for fixing such vulnerabilities. The course also introduces some best practices for taking Web application security into account during the software development life-cycle (SDLC).

Modules

Introduction to Application Security

• HTTP and HTML Basics
• Web Application Security: Hacking 101
• OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
• WASC Threat Classification Overview

Secure Web Application Development

• Threat Modeling
• Application Security Testing
• Secure Web Application Coding Principles
• Common Attacks and Solutions