Securing Web Applications, Services, and Servers Training

This Full Stack Cybersecurity Training for Web Apps and Services course provides in-depth, hands-on experience securing Web-based applications and the servers they run on. You will gain in-depth experience securing web services, and learn how to integrate robust security measures into the web application development process by adopting proven architectures and best practises.

This web service security course includes the OWASP top 10 most critical web application security risks and how to remediate them.

Basic knowledge of Web application operation and Web server administration are assumed. For example, you should have an understanding of Web browser/server operation, session management and basic HTML. In addition, experience with server-side Web application development and security knowledge is helpful.

Securing Web Applications, Services and Servers Training Delivery Methods

• After-course instructor coaching benefit
• Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
• After-course computing sandbox included

Securing Web Applications, Services and Servers Training Course Benefits

• Implement and test secure web applications in your organisation
• Identify, diagnose, and remediate the OWASP top ten web application security risks
• Configure a web server to encrypt web traffic with HTTPS
• Protect Ajax-powered applications and prevent JSON data theft
• Secure XML web services with WS-Security

Securing Web Applications, Services and Servers Training Outline

Setting the Stage

• Defining threats to your web assets
• Surveying the legal landscape and privacy issues

Establishing Security Fundamentals

Modelling web security

• Achieving Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA)
• Performing authentication and authorisation

Encrypting and hashing

• Distinguishing public– and private–key cryptography
• Verifying message integrity

Augmenting Web Server Security

Configuring security for HTTP services

• Managing software updates
• Restricting HTTP methods

Securing communication with SSL/TLS

• Obtaining and installing server certificates
• Enabling HTTPS on the web server

Detecting unauthorised modification of content

• Configuring permissions correctly
• Scanning for file–system changes

Implementing Web Application Security

Employing OWASP resources

• The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top ten
• Remediating identified vulnerabilities

Securing database and application interaction

• Uncovering and preventing SQL injection
• Defending against an insecure direct object reference

Managing session authentication

• Protecting against session ID hijacking
• Blocking cross–site request forgery

Controlling information leakage

• Displaying sanitized error messages to the user
• Handling request and page faults

Performing input validation

• Establishing trust boundaries
• Removing the threat of Cross–Site Scripting (XSS)
• Exposing the dangers of client–side validation
• Implementing robust server–side input validation with regular expressions

Enhancing Ajax Security

Ajax features

• Identifying core Ajax components
• Exchanging information asynchronously

Assessing risks and evaluating threats

• Managing unpredictable interactions
• Exposing Ajax vulnerabilities

Securing XML Web Services

Diagnosing XML vulnerabilities

• Identifying nonterminated tags and field overflows
• Uncovering web service weaknesses

Protecting the SOAP message exchange

• Validating input with an XML schema
• Encrypting exchanges with HTTPS
• Implementing WS–Security with a framework

Scanning Applications for Weaknesses

Operating and configuring scanners

• Matching patterns to identify faults
• "Fuzzing" to discover new or unknown vulnerabilities

Detecting application flaws

• Scanning applications remotely
• Finding vulnerabilities in web applications with OWASP and third–party penetration testing tools

Best Practises for Web Security

Adopting standards

• Reducing risk by implementing proven architectures
• Handling personal and financial data

Managing network security

• Modelling threats to reduce risk
• Integrating applications with your network architecture