Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals

Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals

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Instructor: John Rofrano

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What you'll learn

Explain security by design, learn to develop applications using security by design principles; perform defensive coding following OWASP principles.
Describe IBM cloud container vulnerability; perform vulnerability scanning and pen testing with Kali Linux.
Describe what to look for in app performance; perform troubleshooting using logging, stack trace, and log analytics.
Discuss concepts like Golden Signals; list tools for monitoring and troubleshooting; and test monitoring in action with Prometheus and Grafana.

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There are 4 modules in this course

How vulnerable are your applications to security risks and threats? This course will help you identify vulnerabilities and monitor the health of your applications and systems. You’ll examine and implement secure code practices to prevent events like data breaches and leaks, and discover how practices like monitoring and observability can keep systems safe and secure.

You will gain extensive knowledge on various practices, concepts, and processes for maintaining a secure environment, including DevSecOps practices that automate security integration across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) for identifying security flaws, Dynamic Analysis, and Dynamic Testing. You’ll also learn about creating a Secure Development Environment, both on-premise and in the cloud. You’ll explore the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) top application security risks, including broken access controls and SQL injections. Additionally, you will learn how monitoring, observability, and evaluation ensure secure applications and systems. You’ll discover the essential components of a monitoring system and how application performance monitoring (APM) tools aid in measuring app performance and efficiency. You’ll analyze the Golden Signals of monitoring, explore visualization and logging tools, and learn about the different metrics and alerting systems that help you understand your applications and systems. Through videos, hands-on labs, peer discussion, and the practice and graded assessments in this course, you will develop and demonstrate your skills and knowledge for creating and maintaining a secure development environment.

In this module, you will identify how security fits into your workflow and gain a working knowledge of security concepts and terminology. You’ll discover how to design for security in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and find out about a set of practices known as DevSecOps. You will also discover the OSI model, identify the necessary OSI layers for developers, and implement security measures on the four layers of application development. You will gain insights into security patterns and learn how to organize them. You will describe TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), identify how to keep TLS secure in the SDLC, and explore OpenSSL and its purpose. You will learn the strategies, best practices, and methodologies for getting security early into your code to protect applications against threats and vulnerabilities. Further, you’ll find out how you can use tools like vulnerability scanners and threat models to mitigate security vulnerabilities. You’ll also get the opportunity to add key terms like authentication, encryption, and integrity to your security vocabulary. Finally, you will also perform hands-on labs to encrypt and decrypt files using OpenSSL and scan a network environment with Nmap.

What's included

11 videos4 readings4 assignments2 app items2 plugins

11 videosTotal 59 minutes

Course Introduction   4 minutesPreview module
Security by Design5 minutes
What is DevSecOps? 5 minutes
The OSI Model6 minutes
Securing Layers for Application Development6 minutes
Security Patterns7 minutes
TLS/SSL5 minutes
What is OpenSSL?4 minutes
Vulnerability Scanning and Threat Modeling  4 minutes
Threat Monitoring  3 minutes
Security Concepts and Terminology4 minutes

4 readingsTotal 27 minutes

Summary & Highlights - Introduction to DevSecOps2 minutes
Summary and Highlights - Understanding the Role of Network Security3 minutes
Getting Started with Network and Port Scanning with Nmap20 minutes
Summary and Highlights - Inspecting Security in Application Development  2 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 60 minutes

Introduction to DevSecOps10 minutes
Understanding the Role of Network Security10 minutes
Inspecting Security in Application Development10 minutes
Graded Quiz: Introduction to Security for Application Development30 minutes

2 app itemsTotal 35 minutes

Hands on Lab: Using OpenSSL to Encrypt and Decrypt Files15 minutes
Hands on Lab: Scanning a Network Environment with Nmap20 minutes

2 pluginsTotal 20 minutes

Cheat Sheet: Introduction to Security for Application Development5 minutes
Module 1 Glossary: Introduction to Security for Application Development15 minutes

In this module, you will learn the key mitigation strategies to secure your application throughout development and production. You will also discover a range of security testing methods like static analysis, dynamic analysis, vulnerability analysis, software component analysis, and continuous security analysis. You will explore ways to perform code review and ensure runtime protection for application development. You will also perform hands-on labs based on static analysis, dynamic analysis, vulnerability scanning, and vulnerability detection.

What's included

9 videos2 readings3 assignments4 app items3 plugins

9 videosTotal 39 minutes

Introduction to Security Testing and Mitigation Strategies  4 minutesPreview module
Static Analysis  3 minutes
Dynamic Analysis 3 minutes
Code Review 3 minutes
Vulnerability Analysis4 minutes
Demo Video: Evaluating Vulnerability Analysis5 minutes
Runtime Protection 4 minutes
Software Component Analysis5 minutes
Continuous Security Analysis3 minutes

2 readingsTotal 4 minutes

Summary & Highlights - Introduction to Security Testing and Mitigation Strategies2 minutes
Summary & Highlights - Implementing Key Analysis in Applications2 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 50 minutes

Introduction to Security Testing and Mitigation Strategies 10 minutes
Implementing Key Analysis in Applications 10 minutes
Graded Quiz: Security Testing and Mitigation Strategies 30 minutes

4 app itemsTotal 105 minutes

Hands-on Lab: Using Static Analysis 30 minutes
Hands-on Lab: Using Dynamic Analysis 30 minutes
Hands-on Lab: Evaluating Vulnerability Analysis 20 minutes
Hands-on Lab: Evaluate Software Component Analysis25 minutes

3 pluginsTotal 35 minutes

Reading: Evaluate Software component analysis10 minutes
Cheat Sheet: Security Testing and Mitigation Strategies10 minutes
Module 2 Glossary: Security Testing and Mitigation Strategies15 minutes

In this module, you will learn about the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and its Top 10 security concerns. You’ll learn about application vulnerabilities and discover the top vulnerabilities concerning security experts and professionals. You will explore SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and storing secrets securely. You will also investigate software and data integrity failures, discover how to detect these types of vulnerabilities, and examine ways to mitigate their impact. You will also perform hands-on labs to analyze your code repository using Snyk and use the Vault Python API (hvac) to read, write, and delete key-value secrets in Vault.

What's included

10 videos3 readings3 assignments3 app items4 plugins

10 videosTotal 66 minutes

Intro to OWASP (Top 10) Sec Vulnerabilities 4 minutesPreview module
OWASP Top 1-37 minutes
OWASP Top 4-67 minutes
OWASP Top 7-109 minutes
Demo Video: Snyk (SAST) Free Tool4 minutes
SQL Injections  4 minutes
Other Types of SQL Injection Attacks8 minutes
Demo Video: Example of an SQL Injection7 minutes
Cross Site Scripting4 minutes
Storing Secrets Securely7 minutes

3 readingsTotal 24 minutes

Discover Code Vulnerabilities with Snyk (SAST) Free Tool20 minutes
Summary & Highlights - Introducing OWASP Top 10 2 minutes
Summary & Highlights - Diving Deeper into OWASP2 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 48 minutes

Practice Quiz: Introducing OWASP Top 108 minutes
Diving Deeper into OWASP10 minutes
Graded Quiz: OWASP Application Security Risks30 minutes

3 app itemsTotal 80 minutes

Hands-on Lab: Understanding SQL Injections20 minutes
Hands-on Lab: Cross Site Scripting25 minutes
Hands-on Lab: Storing Secrets Securely35 minutes

4 pluginsTotal 65 minutes

Hands on Lab: Discover Code Vulnerabilities with Snyk (SAST) Free Tool30 minutes
Reading: Cross Site Scripting10 minutes
Cheat Sheet: OWASP Application Security Risks10 minutes
Module 3 Glossary: OWASP Application Security Risks15 minutes

In this module, you will learn about coding best practices and software dependencies. You’ll also explore how to secure a development environment by deciding what to store in a centralized repository and what not to store in GitHub. You will also perform hands-on labs to create HTTP security headers using flask-talisman and safely store and retrieve secrets using the pass CLI (command-line-interface). As your final project, you will check your code on GitHub for vulnerabilities in order of severity and fix the vulnerabilities. You’ll apply the best practices for reducing the risk of vulnerability.

What's included

3 videos3 readings4 assignments2 app items6 plugins

3 videosTotal 20 minutes

Code Practices 5 minutesPreview module
Dependencies  6 minutes
Secure Development Environment8 minutes

3 readingsTotal 8 minutes

Summary & Highlights - Code Development Practices2 minutes
Congratulations and Next Steps3 minutes
Thanks from the Course Team3 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 130 minutes

Code Development Practices10 minutes
Graded Quiz: Security Best Practices 30 minutes
Graded Quiz: Final Project30 minutes
Final Assessment 60 minutes

2 app itemsTotal 40 minutes

Hands-on Lab: Code Practices 20 minutes
Hands-on Lab: Secure Development Environment 20 minutes

6 pluginsTotal 123 minutes

Reading: CodeQL Analysis6 minutes
Cheat Sheet: Security Best Practices15 minutes
Module 4 Glossary: Security Best Practices15 minutes
Practice Lab: Security Vulnerability Scan and Fix30 minutes
Final Lab: Scan and Fix Vulnerabilities30 minutes
Glossary: Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals27 minutes