Foundation in Secure Programming: 2-Day Workshop | Halifax, NS

A two-day Secure Programming Foundation workshop covering core security principles, threats, and countermeasures in software design and code

Group Discounts:

• Save 10% when registering 3 or more participants
• Save 15% when registering 10 or more participants

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About This Course

Duration: 2 Days (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)
Delivery Mode: Classroom / In-Person Workshop
Language: English
Credits: 16 PDUs / Training Hours
Certification: Course Completion Certificate Provided
Refreshments: Lunch, tea/coffee, and snacks included

Course Overview

The Secure Programming Foundation course is the first level of the SECO – Secure Software certification track.
This introductory course covers the basic concepts of secure programming. The course offers an ideal mix of theory and practice, where practical examples are illuminated with case studies.

Learning Objectives

The aim of the course is to enable candidates to apply security principles in design and code, detect security problems in software and explain the causes of these problems.

In more detail, candidates should be able to:

• Understand the importance of security in the software life cycle and the logic behind security principles
• Define basic security terms, e.g. STRIDE, attack surface, trust boundaries, password salting, authentication, authorisation, hardening, cryptography
• Understand web application attack surfaces and trust boundaries
• Explain the workings of HTTP requests and header injection
• List password authentication vulnerabilities and relevant countermeasures
• Summarise the security implications of session management and list relevant countermeasures against session fixation
• Identify countermeasures against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and clickjacking attacks
• Identify and explain countermeasures against injection attacks
• Identify and explain countermeasures against buffer overflows
• Identify and explain countermeasures against cross-site scripting (XSS)
• Identify and explain countermeasures against file upload attacks
• Identify and explain countermeasures against character encoding vulnerabilities
• Understand privilege escalation and list relevant mitigation techniques
• Explain how to secure products by hardening and vulnerability scanning
• Summarise how to prevent side channel attacks
• Summarise how to prevent DoS attacks
• Understand the importance of good error handling practices
• Understand the security risks involved in logging
• Understand symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, Man-in-the-Middle attacks and the pitfalls in SSL/TLS and HTTPS certificates
• Explain how security requirements can/should be identified
• Perform simple threat modeling exercises and identify security requirements for a system

Target Audience

Novice or experienced programmers or software developers whose primary activities include:

• Developing Software
• Testing or Auditing Software
• Facilitating Software Development

Why choose this course?

This two-day Secure Programming Foundation workshop provides an ideal mix of theory and practice while covering the basic concepts of secure programming. As the first level of the SECO – Secure Software certification track, it enables candidates to apply security principles in design and code, detect security problems in software, and understand their causes through practical examples and case studies.

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Want to train your entire team together?

This two-day workshop can be delivered in classroom format, making it suitable for training teams involved in software development, testing, auditing, and facilitation.

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