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Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

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Overview

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Embed security into the software development life cycle. Discover how to use offline security testing to validate your code and uncover vulnerabilities.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The importance of offline testing
  • What you should know
1. Leading Practices
  • Security in the SDLC
  • Development methodologies
  • Programming languages
  • Security frameworks
  • Intro to the OWASP Top Ten
  • Other notable OWASP projects
  • Top 25 Software Errors
  • BSIMM
  • Building your test lab
  • Preparing your checklist
2. Security Documentation
  • Internal project plans
  • Communication planning
  • Change control policy
  • Security incident response policy
  • Logging and monitoring policy
  • Third-party agreements
  • OWASP ASVS
3. Source Code Security Reviews
  • Challenges of assessing source code
  • OWASP Code Review Project
  • Bytecode scanners
  • Binary code scanners
  • Code review models
  • Application threat modeling
  • Code review metrics
  • Demo: Codacy
  • Demo: SonarQube
4. Offline Testing for the OWASP Top Ten (2017)
  • The OWASP Top Ten
  • A1: Injection
  • A2: Broken authentication
  • A3: Sensitive data exposure
  • A4: XML external entities (XXE)
  • A5: Broken access control
  • A6: Security misconfiguration
  • A7: Cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • A8: Insecure deserialization
  • A9: Using components with known vulnerabilities
  • A10: Insufficient logging and monitoring
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jerod Brennen

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