Web Application Security Awareness - Hands on - $499

Tutorial Overview:

Students will understand the basics of application security attacks and defences, along with hands-on examples of common attacks. Complete and detailed high level technical explanations on how attacks work, what they do and the risks posed to your business will be given. Concepts of application security will be discussed in the context of the demonstrated attacks and principles of secure development and risk analysis clearly illustrated. Defensive strategies will be compared and contrasted and reasons for certain security choices will be clearly differentiated.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand major web application security vulnerabilities
• Learn how to execute some of the most popular attacks for manual penetration testing
• Articulate basic defence mechanisms
• Learn how to further knowledge in particular areas of interest for application security

Note: This class has a substantial hands on component.  Each student is required to bring their own laptop.  A populated 4GB USB flashdrive will be provided for each attendee for use during the course, which the student can keep.