This document provides information about a secure web application development training course offered by Pivotal Security LLC. The training is customized for each client's development needs and covers topics like common vulnerabilities, authentication, authorization, cryptography, input handling, error handling, and logging. The course aims to help developers design and build secure applications. It is led by experts with experience at Microsoft and Honeywell and receives positive feedback from attendees.
OWASP Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks
The OWASP Top 10 is a powerful awareness document for web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. Project members include a variety of security experts from around the world who have shared their expertise to produce this list.
We urge all companies to adopt this awareness document within their organization and start the process of ensuring that their web applications minimize these risks. Adopting the OWASP Top 10 is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces secure code. More info at: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
OWASP Top 10 2017 rc1 - The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security RisksAndre Van Klaveren
A presentation of the OWASP Top 10 2017 release candidate, expected to be finalized in summer 2017. Presented at the St. Louis CYBER meetup on Wednesday, June 7, 2017.
OWASP Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks
The OWASP Top 10 is a powerful awareness document for web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. Project members include a variety of security experts from around the world who have shared their expertise to produce this list.
We urge all companies to adopt this awareness document within their organization and start the process of ensuring that their web applications minimize these risks. Adopting the OWASP Top 10 is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces secure code. More info at: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
OWASP Top 10 2017 rc1 - The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security RisksAndre Van Klaveren
A presentation of the OWASP Top 10 2017 release candidate, expected to be finalized in summer 2017. Presented at the St. Louis CYBER meetup on Wednesday, June 7, 2017.
+ Background & Basics of Web App Security, The HTTP Protocol, Web.
+ Application Insecurities, OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, etc.)
+ Web App Security Tools (Scanners, Fuzzers, etc), Remediation of Web App
+ Vulnerabilities, Web Application Audits and Risk Assessment.
Web Application Security 101 was conducted by:
Vaibhav Gupta, Vishal Ashtana, Sandeep Singh from Null.
Oh, WASP! Security Essentials for Web AppsTechWell
The past few years have seen a rapid increase in business efficiency through Web-based applications. Unfortunately, a dramatic increase in the number of web application vulnerabilities has followed. Insecure web applications can be disastrous for mission critical businesses and users' sensitive data. More than 70 percent of security vulnerabilities are due to flaws in the application rather than firewall breaches. Bennie Paul explains how security testing has become an indispensable part of the SDLC for businesses operating online today. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) provides open source tools, code, and materials to develop, test, and maintain application security. Monitoring the “OWASP Top 10” web application security flaws is highly recommended as part of an organization’s testing methodology. Vulnerabilities identified are compared against the organization’s security objectives and regulations, and categorized accordingly for remediation. Benny guides you through the OWASP vulnerabilities, technique, framework, and preventive measures that you can adopt for building better software.
The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is Globally Recognized, Vendor – Neutral, Information Security Credential.
The certification qualifies a candidate to effectively create, implement and evaluate the cybersecurity tools and technologies across a diverse work environment.
I used to get questions on what it takes to have a career in Information Security. Here are my thoughts on building a career in Security touching points like skills, job titles, are certifications needed etc
A walkthrough of web application defense strategies, based around the Open Web Application Security Project's top 10 list. Presented to the Classic City Developers Meetup in August 2017.
+ Background & Basics of Web App Security, The HTTP Protocol, Web.
+ Application Insecurities, OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, etc.)
+ Web App Security Tools (Scanners, Fuzzers, etc), Remediation of Web App
+ Vulnerabilities, Web Application Audits and Risk Assessment.
Web Application Security 101 was conducted by:
Vaibhav Gupta, Vishal Ashtana, Sandeep Singh from Null.
Oh, WASP! Security Essentials for Web AppsTechWell
The past few years have seen a rapid increase in business efficiency through Web-based applications. Unfortunately, a dramatic increase in the number of web application vulnerabilities has followed. Insecure web applications can be disastrous for mission critical businesses and users' sensitive data. More than 70 percent of security vulnerabilities are due to flaws in the application rather than firewall breaches. Bennie Paul explains how security testing has become an indispensable part of the SDLC for businesses operating online today. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) provides open source tools, code, and materials to develop, test, and maintain application security. Monitoring the “OWASP Top 10” web application security flaws is highly recommended as part of an organization’s testing methodology. Vulnerabilities identified are compared against the organization’s security objectives and regulations, and categorized accordingly for remediation. Benny guides you through the OWASP vulnerabilities, technique, framework, and preventive measures that you can adopt for building better software.
The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is Globally Recognized, Vendor – Neutral, Information Security Credential.
The certification qualifies a candidate to effectively create, implement and evaluate the cybersecurity tools and technologies across a diverse work environment.
I used to get questions on what it takes to have a career in Information Security. Here are my thoughts on building a career in Security touching points like skills, job titles, are certifications needed etc
A walkthrough of web application defense strategies, based around the Open Web Application Security Project's top 10 list. Presented to the Classic City Developers Meetup in August 2017.
Security engineering 101 when good design & security work togetherWendy Knox Everette
Security concerns are often dealt with as an afterthought—the focus is on building a product, and then security features or compensating controls are thrown in after the product is nearly ready to launch. Why do so many development teams take this approach? For one, they may not have an application security team to advise them. Or the security team may be seen as a roadblock, insisting on things that make the product less user friendly, or in tension with performance goals or other business demands. But security doesn’t need to be a bolt-on in your software process; good design principles should go hand in hand with a strong security stance. What does your engineering team need to know to begin designing safer, more robust software from the get-go?
Drawing on experience working in application security with companies of various sizes and maturity levels, Wendy Knox Everette focuses on several core principles and provides some resources for you to do more of a deep dive into various topics. Wendy begins by walking you through the design phase, covering the concerns you should pay attention to when you’re beginning work on a new feature or system: encapsulation, access control, building for observability, and preventing LangSec-style parsing issues. This is also the best place to perform an initial threat model, which sounds like a big scary undertaking but is really just looking at the moving pieces of this application and thinking about who might use them in unexpected ways, and why.
She then turns to security during the development phase. At this point, the focus is on enforcing secure defaults, using standard encryption libraries, protecting from malicious injection, insecure deserialization, and other common security issues. You’ll learn what secure configurations to enable, what monitoring and alerting to put in place, how to test your code, and how to update your application, especially any third-party dependencies.
Now that the software is being used by customers, are you done? Not really. It’s important to incorporate information about how customers interact as well as any security incidents back into your design considerations for the next version. This is the time to dust off the initial threat model and update it, incorporating everything you learned along the way.
BSidesLondon 20th April 2011 - David Rook (@securityninja)
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This demonstration filled talk will start by discussing the problems with the security code review approaches most people follow and the reasons why I created Agnitio. This will include a look at existing manual and automated static analysis procedures and tools. The talk will move onto exploring the Principles of Secure Development and how the principles have been mapped to over 60 different checklist items in Agnitio.
---- for more about David go to
http://www.securityninja.co.uk/
---- for more about Agnito go to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/agnitiotool/
Tampa BSides - Chef's Tour of Microsoft Security Adoption Framework (SAF)Mark Simos
Slides from training session "Chef's tour of the Security Adoption Framework" by Mark Simos at Tampa BSides training day on 5 April 2024
This session provides a view of end to end security following Zero Trust principles (and how Microsoft guides customers through this modernization journey)
How to develop an AppSec culture in your project 99X Technology
Cyber attack is the greatest threat to every profession, every industry and every company in the world. Here are slides which will help you learn the challenges, prevent, detect and respond to Cyber threats and help safeguard the organization from every increasing security breaches.
This slide set describes developing an AppSec culture in your projects. This includes how to implement security risk assessment program, threat modeling and security designs and tools for security Automation.
You automated your deployment, elasticized your workloads, and dynamically provisioned your fleet. What do you do next?
Tackle automating your security needs using the latest capabilities in the cloud! There’s no single path to building an automated and continuous security architecture that works for every organization, but certain key principles and techniques are used by the early adopter cloud elite that give them distinct advantages. It's time to re-think your organization’s processes and behaviors to demonstrate the latest efficiencies in your security operations. In this webinar, learn how Intuit implements cloud security automation with Evident.io and other innovative cloud technologies.
Join us to learn:
• How security will be integrated into the overall processes of development and deployment.
• How to tie security acceptance tests, a subset of your key security controls, right into the end of your functional testing process to promote builds with confidence at greater speed.
• How to be successful with API-enabled, continuous security tools in the cloud.
• How to operationalize security alarms, enabling world-class incident response and remediation capabilities.
OWASP Top 10 List Overview for Web DevelopersBenjamin Floyd
The OWASP Top 10 List was recently updated for 2013, and many developers still do not know what it is or why they should care. It is a list of the top web security threats developers need to address to produce secure websites. Most developers aren't security experts, so the OWASP Top 10 Project has created resources designed for developers to quickly test their applications. Come hear about the list, why and how you can use it to make your job easier, and learn about resources you can use to quickly determine if your applications are addressing security threats properly.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024
Secure Application Development Training
1. Secure Web Application Development Training
w w w . p i v o t a l s e c u r i t y . c o m
Pivotal Security LLC
14006 SE 6th ST #9
Bellevue, WA 98007
USA
Phone (425) 686-9695
Email info@pivotalsecurity.com
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2. Introduction
Every year, billions of dollars are wasted in responding to information security related
incidents. What if these incidents can be prevented at first place? Most of the vulnerabilities
in software can be prevented by getting to know how to design and develop secure
software. In addition to providing security consulting services like code review, threat
modeling and penetration testing, Pivotal Security also provides secure application
development training.
Why Pivotal Security training?
In contrast to “canned” approach, Pivotal Security customizes security training for your
development team. We first work with you to understand various aspects of application
development like methodology (waterfall, agile etc), complier and tools, testing and release
process etc and then prepare a custom plan for training. This makes our training precise and
provides much more value to attendees.
Structure of the course
Understanding different types of vulnerabilities
Understanding solutions and platform (.NET, Java etc) features for remediation
Demos of vulnerabilities and countermeasures
Hands on project and Q&A
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3. Course Content
Fundamentals
Understand Common Attack Patterns (OWASP Top 10 for 2010)
o A1: Injection
o A2: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
o A3: Broken Authentication and Session Management
o A4: Insecure Direct Object References
o A5: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
o A6: Security Misconfiguration
o A7: Insecure Cryptographic Storage
o A8: Failure to Restrict URL Access
o A9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
o A10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards
Authentication
Basics and how to design secure authentication protocols
How to securely design “Forgot Password” (credential retrieval) functionality
Understand different forms/types of authentication (Kerberos, NLM etc)
Securely storing and managing credentials
Authentication Design Guidelines
Session management threats and guidelines
Authorization
Principle of Least Privilege
Resource Based Authorization
Role Based Authorization
Resource Access Patterns
o Trusted Sub-system model
o Impersonation / Delegation model
Cryptography
Symmetric Encryption
Asymmetric Encryption
Hashing
Applications of Cryptography
o HMAC
o Digital Signatures
o SSL
Secure confidential / critical data
o At rest: In a database, on a file-system
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4. o In transit: Over the network (internet, intranet etc)
Secure storage of application configuration data
Input Handling
Input Validation Principles
Consequences of Inappropriate Input Handling (demo and remediation techniques)
o Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
o SQL Injection
o One-Click Attacks
o XML and XPath Injection
o LDAP Injection
o Response Splitting
o Buffer overflows
o Canonicalization issues
o Unsafe file upload / creation
o And many more…
Error and Exception Handling
Exception management Threats
Exception management guidelines
Logging and Auditing
Logging
Auditing
What / When and Where to log
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5. About Us
Pivotal Security offers Information Security consulting and training services. We operate
from Seattle, WA in USA and from Hyderabad, AP in India. Pivotal Security’s core team
members have experience working at MNC’s including Microsoft and Honeywell and have
provided consulting to government and private companies.
The Core Team
Gaurav Kumar, CISSP
Founder
Gaurav has over 7 years of experience in Information Security. He has worked with
Honeywell Labs (Bangalore, India) where he was Senior Application Security Engineer
responsible for securing Honeywell’s mission critical applications. During his term, he co-
authored a patent on wireless security, received several awards like Technical Excellence
and Team Excellence award and was certified Green Belt in Six Sigma processes. He later on
worked with Microsoft (Hyderabad, India) as Security Consultant where he provided
application security services to Microsoft Enterprise Customers in US and Asia. He was a
guest trainer for OWASP 2008 New Delhi Conference and Training where he delivered
training on how to develop secure .NET applications. For his contributions, he received
Services Rock Star award by Microsoft. He moved to Redmond, USA to work at Microsoft
headquarters as IT Audit Manager where was responsible for auditing IT systems of
Microsoft and its subsidiaries worldwide. In June 2010, he founded Pivotal Security LLC to
provide information security consulting services.
Sachin Rawat, CISSP
Partner (India operations)
Sachin Rawat is an Information Security expert and B.Tech. (CSE) from IIIT-Hyderabad. He
has been among top 10 winners out of 50,000 participants in a security competition
organised by Microsoft. Prior to founding Viantra, he worked with ACE Security Team , a
premier Information Security team at Microsoft where provided application and
infrastructure security assessment and consulting services to business units within Microsoft
and its clients. His responsibilities included:
He has reviewed over 70 Line-Of-Business applications built across Microsoft and has
delivered security trainings to 700+ Microsoft FTEs over multiple sessions. He has also
delivered training sessions to 1100+ participants from Government and IT Companies across
various training events.
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