AppSec Europe 2016

The OWASP Top 10 web application vulnerabilities has done a great job promoting awareness for the developers. Along with many cheat sheets, they provide valuable tools and techniques to web developers. But such a great source of information could be overwhelming for the programmer who wants to learn about security. This course aims at providing all web developers deep hands-on knowledge on the subject. To achieve this goal, participants will first learn the technical details about each OWASP Top 10 vulnerability. Then the instructor will give demos on how attacks are performed against each of them. After that, participants will use virtual machines and follow step by step procedures to launch attacks against a vulnerable web site. This step is key in understanding how exploitation works so they can later implement effective safeguards in their systems. Our experience is that participants who have had hands-on experience at exploiting vulnerabilities will always remember how to prevent them. Topics such as SSL Certificates, Password Management, the OWASP Top 10 web application vulnerabilities, SQL Injection Attacks, Broken Authentication and Session Management, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object References, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Using a Vulnerability Scanner, Effective Code Review Techniques, Sniffing Encrypted Traffic, Online Password Guessing Attack and Account Harvesting will all be covered in this class.