Web application security in Java
Your Web application written in Java works as intended, so you are done, right? But did you consider feeding in incorrect values? 16Gbs of data? A null? An apostrophe? Negative numbers, or specifically -232? Because that’s what the bad guys will do – and the list is far from complete.
Handling security needs a healthy level of paranoia, and this is what this course provides: a strong emotional engagement by lots of hand on labs and stories from real life, all to substantially improve code hygiene. Mistakes, consequences and best practices are our blood, sweat and tears.
The curriculum goes through the common Web application security issues following the OWASP Top Ten but goes far beyond it both in coverage and the details.All this is put in the context of Java, and extended by core programming issues, discussing security pitfalls of the Java language and framework.
So that you are prepared for the forces of the dark side.
So that nothing unexpected happens.
Nothing.
Delivered onsite for three days, 9-17.00
Delivered online for five days, Monday - Friday 9-13.00
Utbildningsformer
Remote
Längd
3 dagar
Pris
32900 kr
Audience
Java developers working on Web applications.
What you'll have learned
- Getting familiar with essential cyber security concepts
- Understanding Web application security issues
- Detailed analysis of the OWASP Top Ten elements
- Putting Web application security in the context of Java
- Going beyond the low hanging fruits
- Managing vulnerabilities in third party components
- Identify vulnerabilities and their consequences
- Learn the security best practices in Java
- Input validation approaches and principles
Preparedness
General Java and Web development.
Content of Web application security in Java
Day 1
Cyber security basics
- What is security?
- Threat and risk
- Cyber security threat types
- Consequences of insecure software
A1 – Injection
- Injection principles
- Injection attacks
- SQL injection
- SQL injection basics
- Lab – SQL injection
- Attack techniques
- Content-based blind SQL injection
- Time-based blind SQL injection
- SQL injection best practices
- Input validation
- Parameterized queries
- Lab – Using prepared statements
- Case study – Hacking Fortnite accounts - Code injection
- OS command injection
- OS command injection best practices
- Using Runtime.exec()
- Using ProcessBuilder
- Case study – Shellshock
- Lab – Shellshock
- Script injection
A2 – Broken Authentication
- Authentication
- Authentication basics
- Multi-factor authentication
- Authentication weaknesses
- Case study – PayPal 2FA bypass - Password management
- Inbound password management
- Storing account passwords
- Password in transit
- Lab – Is just hashing passwords enough?
- Dictionary attacks and brute forcing
- Salting
- Adaptive hash functions for password storage
- Password policy
- NIST authenticator requirements for memorized secrets
- Case study – The Ashley Madison data breach
- The dictionary attack
- The ultimate crack
- Exploitation and the lessons learned - Password database migration
- (Mis)handling null passwords
Day 2
A2 – Broken Authentication (continued)
- Session management
- Session management essentials
- Why do we protect session IDs – Session hijacking
- Session fixation
- Session invalidation
- Session ID best practices
- Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Lab – Cross-site Request Forgery
- CSRF best practices
- CSRF defense in depth
- Lab – CSRF protection with tokens
- Cookie security
- Cookie attributes
A4 – XML External Entities (XXE)
- DTD and the entities
- Entity expansion
- External Entity Attack (XXE)
- File inclusion with external entities
- Server-Side Request Forgery with external entities
- Lab – External entity attack
- Case study – XXE vulnerability in SAP Store
- Preventing XXE
- Lab – Prohibiting DTD expansion
A5 – Broken Access Control
- Access control basics
- Failure to restrict URL access
- Confused deputy
- Insecure direct object reference (IDOR)
- Lab – Insecure Direct Object Reference
- Authorization bypass through user-controlled keys
- Case study – Authorization bypass on Facebook
- Lab – Horizontal authorization - File upload
- Unrestricted file upload
- Good practices
- Lab – Unrestricted file upload
A7 – Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
- Cross-site scripting basics
- Cross-site scripting types
- Persistent cross-site scripting
- Reflected cross-site scripting
- Client-side (DOM-based) cross-site scripting - Lab – Stored XSS
- Lab – Reflected XSS
- Case study – XSS in Fortnite accounts
- XSS protection best practices
- Protection principles – escaping
- XSS protection APIs in Java
- XSS protection in JSP
- Lab – XSS fix / stored
- Lab – XSS fix / reflected
- Additional protection layers
- Client-side protection principles
A8 – Insecure Deserialization
- Serialization and deserialization challenges
- Integrity – deserializing untrusted streams
- Using readObject
- Integrity – deserialization best practices
- Look ahead deserialization
- Property Oriented Programming (POP)
- Creating payload
- Summary – POP best practices
- Lab – Creating a POP payload
- Lab – Using the POP payload
A9 – Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
- Using vulnerable components
- Untrusted functionality import
- Importing JavaScript
- Lab – Importing JavaScript
- Case study – The British Airways data breach
- Vulnerability management
- Patch management
- Vulnerability databases
- Lab – Finding vulnerabilities in third-party components
Day 3
Web application security beyond the Top Ten
- Client-side security
- Same Origin Policy
- Frame sandboxing
- Cross-Frame Scripting (XFS) attack
- Lab – Clickjacking
- Clickjacking beyond hijacking a click
- Clickjacking protection best practices
- Lab – Using CSP to prevent clickjacking
API security
- Input validation
- Input validation principles
- Blacklists and whitelists
- Data validation techniques
- Lab – Input validation
- What to validate – the attack surface
- Where to validate – defense in depth
- When to validate – validation vs transformations
- Output sanitization
- Encoding challenges
- Unicode challenges
- Lab – Encoding challenges
- Validation with regex
- Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)
- Lab – ReDoS in Java
- Dealing with ReDoS - Integer handling problems
- Representing signed numbers
- Integer visualization
- Integer overflow
- Lab – Integer overflow
- Signed / unsigned confusion in Java
- Case study – The Stockholm Stock Exchange
- Integer truncation
- Best practices
- Upcasting
- Precondition testing
- Postcondition testing
- Using big integer libraries
- Integer handling in Java
- Lab – Integer handling - Files and streams
- Path traversal
- Lab – Path traversal
- Path traversal-related examples
- Additional challenges in Windows
- Virtual resources
- Path traversal best practices
- Lab – Path canonicalization - Unsafe reflection
- Reflection without validation
- Lab – Unsafe reflection - Code quality
- Data handling
- Initialization and cleanup
- Class initialization cycles
- Lab – Initialization cycles
- The finalize() method – best practices
- Object oriented programming pitfalls
- Inheritance and overriding
- Mutability
- Lab – Mutable object
Wrap up
- Secure coding principles
- Principles of robust programming by Matt Bishop
- Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schröder
And now what?
- Software security sources and further reading
- Java resources
