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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Introduction to IT Security and Secure Coding
- Foundations of application security
- Principles of secure software development
- Common security risks in web applications
- The developer's role in preventing vulnerabilities
Web Application Security Fundamentals
- Assessing the web application attack surface
- Common attack vectors targeting web applications
- Security principles for PHP-based systems
- Implementing secure development lifecycle practices
Web Application Vulnerabilities
- Overview of prevalent web vulnerabilities
- Techniques for preventing injection attacks
- Preventing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Mitigating Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Securing against insecure direct object references and access control flaws
- Implementing secure session management
- Security considerations for file uploads
Secure Input Validation and Data Handling
- The importance of validating and sanitizing user input
- Preventing the processing of malicious data
- Leveraging PHP validation and filtering capabilities
- Safeguarding applications against unexpected input
Client-Side Security
- Identifying JavaScript security risks
- Securing Ajax request handling
- HTML5 security considerations
- Preventing client-side vulnerabilities
- Aligning client-side and server-side security practices
Practical Cryptography for PHP Applications
- Cryptography fundamentals
- Hashing and password protection strategies
- Encryption and secure data storage
- Utilizing PHP security extensions, including OpenSSL
- Applying cryptographic best practices
PHP Security Features and Secure Development Techniques
- PHP security extensions and built-in protections
- Utilizing Ctype, ext/filter, and HTML Purifier
- Adopting secure coding patterns in PHP
- Avoiding common PHP programming pitfalls
- Secure error and exception handling
PHP Environment Hardening
- Securing PHP configuration settings
- PHP.ini security recommendations
- Apache and server-level security considerations
- Managing permissions and application configuration
- Protecting production environments
Advanced PHP Vulnerability Topics
- Time and state-related security issues
- open_basedir security considerations
- Denial-of-service attack scenarios
- Hash collision vulnerabilities
- Recent PHP framework security concerns
Security Testing and Assessment Techniques
- Overview of application security testing
- Utilizing security scanners and testing tools
- Penetration testing concepts
- Proxy tools, sniffers, and fuzzing techniques
- Static source code analysis
Practical Secure Coding Workshop
- Analyzing vulnerable PHP applications
- Applying mitigation techniques
- Testing security improvements
- Reviewing secure coding resources and best practices
Requirements
No prior experience required.
Testimonials (3)
I genuinely enjoyed the real life examples.
Marios Prokopiou
Course - Secure coding in PHP
All topics were well covered and presented with a lot of examples. Ahmed was very efficient and managed to keep us focused and attracted at all times.
Kostas Bastas
Course - Secure coding in PHP
The subject of the course was very interesting and gave us many ideas.
