Application Security Fundamentals

The foundation of secure software development

Security risks are most effectively addressed early in the software development lifecycle. Many vulnerabilities arise because security considerations are introduced too late, making them more difficult and costly to resolve. Threat modeling helps you identify potential threats before they become vulnerabilities.

Application Security Fundamentals Yielddd

Using the internationally recognized OWASP standards, you'll learn how to identify, prevent, and mitigate the most common application and API security risks. The training combines theory, demonstrations, and practical exercises, helping you develop the knowledge and skills to integrate security into your software development process.

Through realistic scenarios and practical assignments, you'll gain insight into how vulnerabilities arise, how to prevent them, and which mitigation strategies are most effective. The knowledge you gain can be applied immediately within your own development environment.

Duration: 1 day (hands-on training)
Audience: Developers, Testers, and Software Architects with a basic understanding of APIs and request/response principles.

What you'll learn

Following a short introduction, you'll work through demonstrations, practical exercises, and hands-on challenges covering:

Hacker Mindset & Hacker Kill Chain
- Understand attacker techniques and common attack patterns.
- Learn how attacks are planned and executed.
- Explore the principles behind the hacker kill chain through demonstrations.
OWASP: Open Worldwide Application Security Project
- Understand the purpose and relevance of OWASP.
- Apply the OWASP Top 10 and API Security Top 10.
- Learn how these standards support secure software development.
- Common Application Vulnerabilities
- Broken Object Level Authorization
- Broken User Authentication
- Excessive Data Exposure
- Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
- Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Server-side
- Request Forgery (SSRF)
- Lack of Resources and Rate Limiting
- Broken Function Level Authorization
- Mass Assignment
- Security Misconfiguration
- Injection
- Improper Assets Management
- Security Logging and Monitoring
Hands-on Exploitation & Mitigation
- Identify, exploit, and remediate common security vulnerabilities.
- Work with post-exploitation techniques, reverse shells, and security testing tools through practical exercises.

Security as an integral part of software development

By the end of this training, you'll recognize security vulnerabilities earlier, understand how attackers exploit them, and know which mitigation strategies are most effective. You'll have the knowledge and practical experience to integrate security into your software development process, helping you build more secure and resilient applications.