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Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

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

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The importance of online testing
  • What you should know
1. Security Testing in QA
  • Software quality assurance process
  • Positive testing
  • Negative testing
  • SQA metrics
  • OWASP Testing Guide
  • Demo: OWASP ZAP
2. Assessing Deployed Apps
  • Manual vs. automated testing
  • Scanning vs. pen testing
  • Testing in non-production
  • Testing in production
  • OSINT gathering
  • Web app proxies
  • Demo: Fiddler2
  • Demo: Burp Suite
  • Demo: Samurai Web Testing Framework (WTF)
3. Web App Pen Testing
  • Scoping a web app pen test
  • Avoiding production impacts
  • The penetration testing execution standard
  • Types of pen tests
  • Web application firewalls
  • SIEMs
  • Purple teaming
  • Demo: OWASP OWTF
4. 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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