This comprehensive three-day Secure Coding for .NET (ASP.NET/C#/VB.NET) Boot Camp is designed to educate professional programmers on the skills necessary to develop and deploy secure applications. You will learn about potential security issues through concrete, hands-on examples of vulnerable code.

You’ll learn which poor programming practices lead to vulnerable code, how to code securely and how to maintain secure development practices throughout the development life cycle. You’ll sharpen skills and gain experience in applying secure design and implementation principles through demonstrations of building, testing and securing real-world applications. You’ll also be given the opportunity to participate in securing and testing applications through a progression of “challenge scenarios” alternating assignments as “attackers” and “defenders” of applications.

• Three full days of of secure coding training with an expert instructor
• Infosec digital courseware (physical textbooks available to purchase)
• 90-day access to replays of daily lessons (Flex Pro)
• Curated videos from other top-rated instructors (add-on)
• 90-day access to hosted labs (Flex Pro)
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

This boot camp teaches you how poor security practices leave applications open to attack and how to implement the necessary tools, techniques and best practices to write code in a secure manner. It will help develop your knowledge and skills around:

• Common web application exposures and attacks
• Compliance for the OWASP Top 10 training component in the PCI DSS standard
• Static analysis techniques for quickly finding web application flaws
• Secure use of C#/VB.NET API
• How to code defensively and perform proper input validation

• .NET application developers
• C# programmers
• ASP.NET developers
• Managers, architects and technologists involved in deploying .NET applications
• Anyone interested in learning more about secure .NET coding

Roughly 12-24 months of experience working with .NET applications is recommended. You should have an understanding of web applications, web programming concepts and experience building web applications using the .NET Framework. A basic understanding of IT security principles is recommended but not required.

Course introduction

• Web application environment and components
• General web application security concepts
• .NET framework security features

Input validation and encoding

• Input-driven attacks
• Validation best practices
• Output encoding

Authentication, authorization and session management

• Common authentication weaknesses
• Authorization best practices
• Controlling application access
• Password security
• Session hijacking and trapping
• Protecting user sessions and tokens
• Canonicalization problems
• Parameter manipulation

Encryption, confidentiality and data protection

• Cookie-based attacks
• Protecting application variables
• Cache control issues
• SSL best practices
• Protecting usernames, passwords and personally identifiable information
• Common cryptography pitfalls

Data access

• Secure database programming
• Database permissions best practices
• Parameterized queries
• Common stored procedure flaws

Error handling and logging

• Attacking via error messages
• Secure logging and error handling

Server configuration and code management

• Common web and app server mis-configurations
• Common database server mis-configurations
• Protecting application code

XML web services

• Overview of WSDL, SOAP and AJAX
• Web service attacks
• AJAX pitfalls
• Web service best practices

Application threat modeling

• Threat modeling concepts
• Application context
• Identifying attacks, vulnerabilities and countermeasures
• Threat modeling tools

Practical security testing techniques for developers

• Useful web application assessment tools
• Determining the severity of vulnerabilities
• Dealing with time constraints