Agenda

• 01 INTRODUCTION TO APPLICATION SECURITY

  ● Introduction to Application Security ● OWASP TOP 10 Vulnerabilities ● SQL Injection ● Cross-Site Scripting ● Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) ● Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) ● Local File Inclusions ● File upload (RCE) ● Hands-On Labs​: SQL Injection ● Hands-On Labs​: XSS and CSRF ● Hands-On Labs​: SSRF ● Hands-On Labs​: LFI and File Upload issues.

• 02 SECURE DESIGN - INPUT AND OUTPUT VALIDATION TECHNIQUES

  ● Character Encoding ● Input Validation ● Output Encoding ● Whitelisting & Blacklisting ● Normalization of the input and output ● Regular Expressions ● HTML Encoding ● Prepared Statements ● Stored Procedures ● Hands-sOn Labs​: Input validation using industry best practices ● Hands-On Labs​: Output encoding to prevent client-side attacks like XSS

• 03 SECURE DESIGN - AUTHENTICATION ATTACKS & DEFENSE

  ● AUTHENTICATION ATTACKS - Brute force attacks - Weak password storage - Default passwords - Password reset - Remember me - Secret questions - Account lockout - Logout - Hands-On Labs​: Bruteforce attacks and secret questions - Hands-On Labs​: Information leakage with password reset workflows ● AUTHENTICATION DEFENSES - Strong Password policy - Basic Authentication - Form-Based Authentication - CAPTCHA - Hands-On Labs​: Secure password storage and rainbow table attacks - Hands-On Labs​: Implement JWT securely in Golang

• 04 SECURE DESIGN - AUTHORIZATION ATTACK & DEFENSE

  ● Role-based access control ● Declarative access control ● Unvalidated redirects and forwards ● Hands-On Labs​: Best practices in implementing role-based access control ● Hands-On Labs​: Risks with unvalidated redirects and forwards

• 05 SECURE DESIGN - SESSION MANAGEMENT ​(Auth0, O365)

  ● Weak session management ● Session hijacking/Session fixation ● Client certificates ● Protecting Sessions ● Regeneration of Session tokens ● Session Timeouts ● MITM attacks and defenses ● Using third party IAM services (Auth0, O365) ● Hands-On Labs​: Session hijacking and fixation attacks ● Hands-On Labs​: Secure randomness for sensitive features ● Hands-On Labs​: Preventing MITM using industry best practices

• 06 SECURE DESIGN - SECURITY CONFIGURATION (HSTS, TLS)

  ● Using ​Transport Layer Security (TLS) ● HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) ● Hands-On Labs​: How to configure TLSv1.2 and beyond securely to achieve A+ on SSLlabs scans. ● Hands-On Labs​: Configure HSTS to prevent MITM attacks

• 07 INTRODUCTION TO DEVSECOPS

  ● What is DevSecOps? ● DevSecOps Building Blocks- People, Process, and Technology. ● DevSecOps Principles – Culture, Automation, Measurement and Sharing (CAMS) ● Benefits of DevSecOps – Speed, Reliability, Availability, Scalability, Automation, Cost, and Visibility. ● What is Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment?. - Continuous Integration to Continuous Deployment to Continuous Delivery. - Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment. - General workflow of CI/CD pipeline. - Achieving full automation. - Designing a CI/CD pipeline for a web application. ● Common Challenges faced when using DevOps principle. ● Case studies on DevOps of cutting edge technology at Facebook, Amazon, and Google ● Demo:​ How to implement a full-blown Enterprise DevSecOps Pipeline.

• 08 SECURE SDLC AND CI/CD PIPELINE

  ● What is Secure SDLC in DevSecOps ● Secure SDLC Activities and Security Gates - Security Requirements ( Requirements) - Threat Modelling (Design and Architecture) - Static Analysis and Secure by Default ( Implementation) - Dynamic Analysis(Testing) - OS Hardening, Web/Application Hardening (Deploy) - Security Monitoring/Compliance (Maintain) ● Security Requirement gathering ● Secure Design and Architecture ● Security Principles ● Hands-On Labs​: Implement CI/CD pipelines.

• 09 SOFTWARE COMPONENT ANALYSIS(CSA) IN CI/CD PIPELINE

  ● What is Software Component Analysis? ● Software Component Analysis and challenges. ● What to look for in an SCA solution (Free or Commercial). ● Embedding SCA tools like OWASP Dependency Checker, Safety, RetireJS, and NPM Audit, Snyk into the pipeline. ● Demo: using OWASP Dependency Checker to scan third-party component vulnerabilities in Java Code Base. ● Hands-On Labs​: using RetireJS and NPM to scan third-party component vulnerabilities in Javascript Code Base. ● Hands-On Labs​: using Safety/pip to scan third-party component vulnerabilities in Python Code Base.

• 10 STATIC ANALYSIS(SAST) IN CI/CD PIPELINE

  ● What is Static Application Security Testing? ● Static Analysis and challenges. ● Embedding SAST tools like Fortify, Checkmarx, find bugs into the pipeline. ● Secrets scanning to prevent secret exposure in the code. ● Writing custom checks to catch secrets leakage in an organization. ● Hands-On Labs​: using GoSec to scan Golang code. ● Hands-On Labs​: using Trufflehog/Gitrob to scan for secrets in CI/CD pipeline. ● Hands-On Labs​: using nodescan to scan node.js code.

• 11 DAST (Dynamic Analysis) in CI/CD pipeline

  ● What is Dynamic Application Security Testing? ● Dynamic Analysis and Its challenges ( Session Management, AJAX Crawling ) ● Embedding DAST tools like ZAP and Burp Suite into the pipeline. ● SSL misconfiguration testing ● Server Misconfiguration Testing like secret folders and files. ● Hands-On Labs​: using ZAP to configure per commit/weekly/monthly scans. ● Demo​: using Burp Suite to configure per commit/weekly/monthly scans.

• 12 INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE(IAC) AND ITS SECURITY

  ● What is Infrastructure as Code and its benefits ● Introduction to Ansible - Benefits of Ansible - Push and Pull Model - Modules, tasks, roles, and Playbooks - Ansible for continuous security in DevOps Pipelines ● Tools and Services for practicing IaaC ( Packer + Ansible + Docker ) ● Hands-On Labs:​ Using Ansible to harden on-prem/cloud machines for PCI-DSS ● Hands-On Labs:​ Create hardened Golden images using Packer + Ansible

• 13 CONTAINER SECURITY

  ● What is Docker ● Docker vs. Vagrant ● Basics of Docker and its challenges - Vulnerabilities in images (Public and Private) - Denial of service attacks - Privilege escalation methods in Docker. - Security misconfigurations. ● Container Security. - Content Trust and Integrity checks. - Capabilities and namespaces in Docker. - Segregating Networks. - Kernel Hardening using SecComp and AppArmor. ● Static Analysis of container(Docker) images. ● Dynamic Analysis of container hosts and daemons. ● Hands-On Labs: - Scanning docker images using Clair and its APIs. - Auditing Docker daemon and host for security issues.

• 14 SECRETS MANAGEMENT IN MUTABLE AND IMMUTABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

  ● Managing secrets in traditional infrastructure. ● Managing secrets in containers at Scale. ● Secret Management in Cloud - Version Control Systems and Secrets. - Environment Variables and Configuration files. - Docker, Immutable systems, and security challenges. - Secrets management with Hashicorp Vault and consul. ● Hands-On Labs​: Securely store Encryption keys and other secrets using Vault/Consul.

• 15 VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT WITH CUSTOM TOOLS

  ● Approaches to manage the vulnerabilities in the organization. ● Hands-On Labs: ​Using Defect Dojo for vulnerability management.