With the Secure development in .net/C# course we deliver a complete set of knowledge and practicing. We can on the fly flex the course to meet the level and the experiences of the audience.
Prerequisites
We assume that the developers attending the C# secdev course:
are familiar with the C# language and with the .NET framework
understand the HTTP protocol, HTML and Javascript
are familiar with basic security features of an enterprise application (authentication, authorization, the concept of a session)
have .net core 2.0 SDK and a suitable IDE installed on their laptop (labs desktop)
Playing with identifying real threats and security requirements
Intro to secure coding
OWASP ASVS topics, an introduction to the areas to protect
How a properly designed infrastructure architecture should be built
Intro to practical secure development
Setting up the right security requirements
Create and train security champions
S-SDLC basics, secure development as integral part of SDLC
Automatic tools and their values, non-automatic tools, pentests, peer code review, assisted code-review
B. Code security
Common server-side vulnerabilities and their defense
Injections: SQLi, XML injections, JSON, XPath, XSS, cookie injection, open redirection, http header injection
Path traversal, XXE, Buffer overflow, Zip bomb, Million laugh, RFI, Insecure file upload, Code execution
Insecure direct object reference
Common client-side vulnerabilities and their defense
XSS (types, impact, causes, defenses, other html injections, BeEF)
CSRF, Clickjacking, Same-origin policy, CORS
Tabnabbing
Server-side defense
Input validation vs encoding
Some security features
Security logging, exception handling
C. Security design
Security by design
Threat modelling
Separation of duties, trust boundaries, security boundaries, defence in depth, principle of least privilege, minimising the attack surface, risk driven mitigation
Audit support (separate audit logs, managing debug logs)
Intrusion detection, correct reactions
Protecting the admin interface
D. Framework/language specifics
Secure coding in .net/C#
Developed by Riccardo ten Cate
Security features of .NET and what kind of protection they serve
C# language security (is C# a secure language?)
.NET-specific issues
Numeric overflow, automatic conversions
Serialization
Authentication, membership, provider model
Login controls, session management
Role based authorization
ViewState
Identity server
OAuth
Cryptography in .NET
How to use a key vault
How to test entropy of secure random solutions
JS frameworks [optional]
Angular
React
HTML5 [optional]
Local storage/session storage
Web messaging, web sockets
E. Security testing and audit [optional]
Practicing is part of many of the above blocks. We start off basic hacking challenges, but the real exercises are about fixing vulnerable codes, and tasks when attendees need to assess code and an application on their own. We mostly offer cloud based facilities to run the exercise environments, so no local installation is needed.
Hands-ons with vulnerable apps
For most of the courses there are intentionally vulnerable applications which we use to demonstrate and learn specific vulnerabilities and how to fix them.
In some cases we use public "damn vulnerable" applications, in some cases we prepared our own applications to practice with.
DIY sonarqube code checking
We assume that developers should be capable of running basic automated tests against the security of their codes on their own. And also be able to tune the SCA tools to produce reasonable false positive and valuable findings ratio.
Normally we teach how to use security plugins of Sonarqube.
We provide sample codes to test. Though the best experience is achieved when developers run the security SCA against their own codes.
See also the extra, on-demand block of 'Assisted code-review lab' below for practicing on your own codes.
DIY ASVS self-audit
OWASP ASVS is the current standard for assessing the security quality and design flaws of a (web) application, and it's the developers who know the answers to the ASVS audit questions. So we take developers to a short journey in assessing the security properties of their applications.
Trainers
Check out the trainers' bios in the Trainers section
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