Application Security Courses and Certifications

LASCON

How AI is Perceived in Shift Left of Application Security

Discover how AI transforms application security by enabling real-time vulnerability detection, reducing false positives, and prioritizing critical issues in the shift-left approach.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DevSecCon

Empowering DevSecOps - Risk-Driven Security and Scaling Application Security

Risk-first threat modeling connects code and architecture weaknesses to business priorities, while a second talk explores scaling application security through engineering partnerships.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cyber Security: Application of AI

18 ratings at Coursera

Apply machine learning to cyber defense: classify malware with neural networks, flag network anomalies using k-nearest neighbors and one-class SVM, and counter poisoning and evasion attacks.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Cyber Security: Application of AI

18 ratings at Coursera

Apply machine learning to cyber defence: classify malware with neural networks, detect network anomalies using k-nearest neighbours and one-class SVM, and counter poisoning and evasion attacks.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

(ISC)²

Systems and Application Security

36 ratings at Coursera

Secure data on mobile devices and in the cloud: classify malware, deploy HIDS/HIPS and EDR, apply TPM and endpoint encryption, and manage virtualized environments.

• Coursera
• 10 hours 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Web Application Security

24 ratings at Coursera

Identify SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF vulnerabilities, apply input validation, output encoding, and authentication best practices, and use Microsoft Copilot to detect and fix insecure code.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 9 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Core Web Application Security Testing

Practice ethical hacking end to end: build backdoors with msfvenom and FatRat, hook browsers with BeEF, run phishing and social media attacks, do website reconnaissance, and exploit XSS.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Mastering FastAPI Authentication with JWT

Learn to implement JWT-based authentication in FastAPI, from secure login endpoints and dependency injection to token generation, decoding, and protected API access.

• CodeSignal
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Career Certificate

OWASP Top 10 & Common Attack Vectors with TypeScript (1-5)

Practice identifying and fixing OWASP Top 10 web vulnerabilities in TypeScript through hands-on work on a simple web application.

• CodeSignal
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate
• 5 courses

A02: Cryptographic Failures

Learn how improper cryptographic implementations expose secrets, passwords, and sensitive data—and apply secure hashing, environment variables, and database encryption to protect them.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

A01: Broken Access Control

Hands-on practice finding and fixing broken access control in APIs and administrative web endpoints.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

A04: Insecure Design

Hands-on hardening of a pastebin application against insecure credential recovery, bot abuse, flawed quota logic, and missing audit trails.

• CodeSignal
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Packt

Web Application Security Testing with Google Hacking

Use Google search operators to uncover directory listings, SQL syntax errors, exposed backup files and sensitive URLs, then block indexing with robots.txt and meta tags.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Board Infinity

Spring Boot, Spring Security & Application Finalization

Build a secure REST API backend with Spring Boot: persist data using Spring Data JPA and Hibernate, then protect endpoints with Spring Security and JWT authentication.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Increasing Application Security: Bedrock Guardrails & GenAI

Build safeguarded GenAI applications with Amazon Bedrock guardrails, defending against prompt injection attacks through hands-on demonstrations, technical deep-dives, and expert tech talks.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course