Secure Coding Training and Certification in Marina Bay, Singapore

This Secure Coding Training is designed to equip developers, software engineers, and security professionals with the skills and knowledge to write secure code that can withstand common vulnerabilities and threats. Participants will learn about secure coding principles, best practices, and common vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and buffer overflows. The training will focus on practical approaches to mitigating security risks in software development processes. Real-world examples, hands-on exercises, and code review techniques will be used to provide a comprehensive understanding of how to build secure applications across various programming languages and platforms.

Introduction to Secure Coding and Common Vulnerabilities

Introduction to Secure Coding:

Overview of the course and the importance of secure coding.

The role of developers in building secure applications.

Secure coding principles: defense in depth, least privilege, fail securely.

Common Security Vulnerabilities:

Overview of the OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities:

Injection flaws (SQL, command, etc.)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Broken authentication and session management

Case studies of real-world attacks stemming from these vulnerabilities.

SQL Injection and Mitigation:

Understanding how SQL injection attacks work.

How to prevent SQL injection: Parameterized queries, prepared statements, ORM frameworks.

Hands-on lab

Hands-on Exercises

Securing Web Applications and Authentication Mechanisms

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Prevention:

Overview of XSS attacks and their types: Stored, reflected, and DOM-based.

Best practices for preventing XSS: Contextual encoding, input validation, and content security policies (CSP).

Hands-on lab: Identifying and mitigating XSS vulnerabilities in web applications.

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Prevention:

Understanding CSRF attacks and their impact on web applications.

How to prevent CSRF: Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies.

Hands-on exercise: Fixing CSRF vulnerabilities in a sample application.

Authentication and Session Management:

Principles of secure authentication and session management.

Secure password storage (hashing and salting), multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Session fixation and session hijacking: Mitigation strategies.

Hands-on lab: Implementing secure session management in web applications.

Secure Cryptography:

Importance of cryptography in secure coding.

Common cryptographic techniques: AES, RSA, hashing algorithms (SHA-256).

Best practices for using cryptographic functions: Secure key storage, encryption at rest and in transit.

Hands-on exercises

Secure Coding Practices and Code Review

Input Validation and Output Encoding:

Importance of input validation and output encoding for security.

Whitelisting vs blacklisting input validation.

Output encoding techniques to prevent XSS and injection attacks.

Hands-on exercise: Securing inputs and outputs in code.

Secure File Handling and Path Traversal:

Understanding file handling vulnerabilities: Path traversal and unrestricted file upload.

Best practices for secure file handling and validating file types.

Hands-on exercise: Securing file upload functionality in web applications.

Code Review for Security:

Principles of secure code review: Tools and techniques for identifying vulnerabilities.

Static code analysis and dynamic application security testing (DAST) tools.

How to incorporate security into the code review process.

Hands-on lab: Conducting a secure code review for a sample application.

Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC):

Integrating security into the SDLC: Planning, coding, testing, and deployment phases.

Role of security testing: Static analysis, dynamic analysis, penetration testing.

Continuous security testing with DevSecOps practices.

Hands-on Exercises