C# and Web Application Security

SEC-122 (3 Days)

Secure Coding Training Overview

Accelebrate's C# and Web Application Security training teaches developers how to prevent common security issues in C# applications. Attendees go beyond core programming issues, exploring secure code pitfalls of the C# language and the .NET framework.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught as private, customized training for 3 or more attendees at our clients' sites worldwide. In addition, we offer live, private online classes for teams who may be in multiple locations or wish to save on travel costs. Please visit our client list for organizations for whom we have delivered onsite training. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private on-site or online training, please contact us.

Secure Coding Training Objectives

All students will:

Understand Web application security issues
Analyze the OWASP Top Ten elements
Put Web application security in the context of C#
Go beyond the low hanging fruits
Handle security challenges in your C# code
Identify vulnerabilities and their consequences
Learn the security best practices in C#

Secure Coding Training Outline

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Cybersecurity basics

What is security?
Threat and risk
Cybersecurity threat types
Consequences of insecure software
Constraints and the market
The dark side

The OWASP Top Ten (Part I)

OWASP Top 10 – 2017
Injection
- Injection principles
- Injection attacks
- SQL injection
- SQL injection best practices
- Code injection
- Injection best practices
Broken Authentication
- Authentication basics
- Authentication weaknesses
- Spoofing on the Web
- Case study – PayPal 2FA bypass
- Password management
Sensitive Data Exposure
- Information exposure
- Exposure through extracted data and aggregation
- Case study – Strava fitness app data exposure

The OWASP Top Ten (Part II)

XML External Entities (XXE)
- DTD and the entities
- Entity expansion
- External Entity Attack (XXE)
Broken Access Control
- Access control basics
- Failure to restrict URL access
- Confused deputy
File upload
- Unrestricted file upload
- Good practices
- Lab – Unrestricted file upload
Security Misconfiguration
- Configuration principles
- Configuration management
Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
- Cross-site scripting basics
- Cross-site scripting types
- XSS protection best practices
- Protection principles – escaping
- XSS protection APIs
- Request validation in ASP.NET
- Further XSS protection techniques
- Lab – XSS fix / stored
- Lab – XSS fix / reflected
- Additional protection layers
Insecure Deserialization
- Serialization and deserialization challenges
- Deserializing untrusted streams
- Deserializing best practices
- Property Oriented Programming (POP)
Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
- Using vulnerable components
- Untrusted functionality import
- Importing JavaScript
- Lab – Importing JavaScript
- Case study – The British Airways data breach

Insufficient Logging & Monitoring

Logging and monitoring principles

Web application security beyond the Top Ten

Client-side security
Tabnabbing
Frame sandboxing

Common software security weaknesses

Input validation
- Integer handling problems
- Other numeric problems
- Unsafe reflection
- Unsafe native code
Security features
- .NET platform security
Errors
- Error and exception handling principles
- Error handling
- Exception handling
- Class initialization cycles
- Lab – Initialization cycles
- Unreleased resource
- Code quality
- Object-oriented programming pitfalls

Wrap up

Secure coding principles
- Principles of robust programming by Matt Bishop
- Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schröder
And now what?
- Further sources and readings
- .NET and C# resources

50%

Lecture/Demo

50%

Lab

Course Number:

SEC-122

Duration:

3 Days

Prerequisites:

All secure coding students should have general C# and web application development experience.

Training Materials:

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware.

Software Requirements:

A VirtualBox virtual machine with all required software will be provided.

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