Securing Web Applications
Course Overview
The Securing Web Applications course has been developed to provide attendees with the skills required to:
- Assess their web applications for the top ten vulnerabilities
- Interpret the results of their assessment
- Eradicate discovered vulnerabilities
This concise hands-on one day course will allow you to attack our specially developed web application to discover vulnerabilities. Each of the top ten web application vulnerabilities are covered through a mix of theory and hands on labs to ensure you gain the maximum skills transfer.
Benefits
As an attendee you will:
- Gain hands on experience of the techniques used to discover, exploit and resolve powerful security flaws such as Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection.
- Use Open Source tools to assess your web applications for security flaws including those defined within the OWASP Top 10.
- Resolve web application security flaws of provide consultancy to your development team.
- Receive tuition from Gary O’Leary-Steele, CREST approved penetration tester and co-author of SQL Injection Attacks and Defence
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course you will recieve:
- An assessment toolkit CD including Open Source assessment tools, exploit code and proprietary tools created by Sec-1.
- A 230+ page course manual
- A VMWare image of the target web application used throughout the course to practice and improve your skills
Who Should Attend This Course
This course is relevant to attendees who are involved in or responsible for web development and or web application security including:
- Web Application Developers
- IT Professionals
- IT Managers
- IT Security Officers
- Members of Government responsible for Information Technology Health Check
Prerequisites
The following skills are desirable:
- Some experience of web development
- Administrating Windows
- TCP/IP
- NetBIOS
- Windows File Sharing
- DNS, WINS and DHCP
- NTFS and File Permissions
- Linux – Configuring IP address
- Linux – Configuring Routing
File downloads
- CNSP- Securing Web Applications (50 KB) [pdf]