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Broken Access Control
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Explore Access Control (what it is, how it works) and discuss how it can be exploited to allow attackers to access your web application and other sensitive data.
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Cryptographic Failures
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Explore the use of cryptography in web applications and show how failures in cryptography can lead to sensitive data exposure and other critical information leakage.
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Injection Attacks
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A look at injection attacks: how they work, what technologies are used and why they are so dangerous.
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Insecure Design
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Focus on risks related to design flaws. The need to “shift left” as an industry means we need more threat modeling, reference architectures, and secure design patterns and principles.
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Security Misconfiguration
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Explore common security configurations for web applications and how they can be easily misconfigured to allow attackers easy access to your data.
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Syllabus
Syllabus
Course description
In this course, we will examine Broken Access Control, Cryptographic Failures, Injection Attacks, Insecure Design and Security Misconfiguration. We’ll use demos, graphics and real-life examples to help you understand the details of each of these risks.
Meet the author
John Wagnon is a Solution Architect for F5 Networks DevCentral technical community where he utilizes the full spectrum of F5 technology to analyze and solve complex problems for F5 users all over the world. John is certified in several industry-relevant areas including CISSP, Certified Ethical Hacker and Six Sigma (Process Improvement).
Prior to his work at F5, John was a Communications Officer in the U.S. Air Force where he specialized in ground and satellite networks. After leaving the Air Force, he worked for a technology consulting firm where he analyzed cyberattacks against U.S. Department of Defense computer systems and networks. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Networks.
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