OWASP 2021 Virtual AppSec Training Program

Application Security is constantly evolving. Engineering teams use new technologies, frameworks and tools to make apps more responsive, easy-to-use and functional. At the same time attackers are constantly looking to infiltrate and find new security weaknesses in modern applications.

This program is a defense-focused training that delves deep into advanced topics of Application Security. The training expounds attacks and defenses against modern full-stack applications, right from client-side vulnerabilities to advanced server-side vulnerabilities and defenses.

OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) are the most commonly used solutions for stateless, token-based authentication in distributed microservice architectures as of today.

But have you ever asked yourself how OAuth 2.0 really works and how it differs from OpenID Connect? Then this workshop is a good opportunity to get to know how it works by making your hands dirty in code using Spring Security.

After an introduction to the basic concepts of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, we will use a boot-based Spring sample application to gradually implement authentication and authorization using these standards.

Learning Objectives:
- Differences between OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- What is an Authorization Grant and when do I use which grant
- The detailed procedure of the Authorization Code Grant protocol flow
- Implementation of an OAuth 2.0/OIDC compliant Resource Server
- Differences between JWT and reference tokens
- Authorization by means of claims in JWT
- Implementation of an OAuth 2.0/OIDC compliant client
- The correct validation of tokens
- Automated testing with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
- Current best practices for OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, especially for Single Page Applications
- The workshop contents are aligned with the proposed updates of OAuth 2.1

Overview of Web Penetration Testing Modules
- OWASP Top Ten Web Vulnerabilities
- API Top Ten vulnerabilities
- Technical measures and best practices u HTTP Security Headers
- JSON Web Tokens

The methodology of the course covers more than 75% practical hands-on approach. They will get hands-on knowledge to perform the hacking tasks in ethical ways to improve the security of assets by using various hacking tools. Attack side: Kali Linux 2020.x, NMAP, Burp / OWASP ZAP, Metasploit Framework (MSF). Victim side: OWASP Resources i.e. Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA), Tomcat, as virtual machines.

Modules:
• Penetration testing overview
• Various types of web apps footprinting, footprinting tools, and countermeasures
• Ethical hacking methodology
• Web attacks: XSS, SQL Injection, Facebook phishing.
• NoSQL injection, API vulnerabilities, LFI, Brute-Force attacks, CSRF.

This session offers participants an interactive introduction to Threat Modeling, based on the instructor's learning and experience over the past several years. A primary focus of this course is the introduction of threat modeling activities into your organization's software development processes, to improve the overall quality and security of the applications you build.

As a recent "convert" to the application security world, your instructor has developed his "expertise" in threat modeling by gathering information from a variety of sources. He's combined those learnings with his own experience to create a practical threat modeing approach he has successfully applied within his professional roles.

In addition to addressing key questions around the "Five Ws," the presentation will cover the "Four Questions" approach to developing a model, and include several interactive exercises to provide direct experience. A brief review of available modeing tools will also be included, along with a discussion of the opportunities and challenges for introducing Threat Modelng into your SDLC.

Kubernetes has emerged as the leading container orchestration and management platform for on-prem and cloud environments. However, Kubernetes is a multi-headed beast with several minute and nuanced security configuration parameters. In addition, attackers take advantage of these insecurely configured and designed Kubernetes deployments and perform deep-incursions into the organization’s assets. This training is a hard-core hands-on view of Kubernetes Security from an Attack and Defense perspective. The course takes the participants through a journey where they start with setting up a Kubernetes cluster (simulating an on-prem Kubernetes) deployment, attack the cluster and learn, through multiple deep-dive examples and cookbooks on how they can effectively secure Kubernetes clusters. The course is aimed at providing a view of attacking, auditing and defending Kubernetes clusters on-prem or on the cloud

All developers today are also DevSecOps engineers even if they are not aware of it. In this Bootcamp, you will learn how to secure cloud-native Java microservices. First, we will look into what are the common security risks for server-side applications. Then we will directly dive into the hands-on coding parts to see how we can mitigate those security risks in our own applications. Specifically, we'll see how the security patterns are implemented with the most widely used frameworks Spring Boot (main focus) and Micronaut (partly). In the last part, you will also learn how to implement automated security tests along the testing-pyramid.


Learning Objectives:
- OWASP Top 10 (Web Application Security Risks)
- OWASP API Top 10 - Securing Spring Boot applications
- Securing Micronaut applications - Authentication and Authorization
- Basic Auth, Session Management, MTLS, WebAuthn
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
- Configuring HTTPS connections
- Encryption and password hashing
- Security response headers
- Defense against Session Hijacking, SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF
- Securing both blocking servlet-based and non-blocking reactive web applications
- Automated security tests

Managing comprehensive security for continuous delivery of applications across organizations continues to remain a serious bottleneck in the DevOps movement. The methodology involved in implementing effective security practices within delivery pipelines can be challenging. This training is designed to give a practical approach of implementing Security across Continuous Delivery Pipelines by leveraging the plethora of cloud offerings and is backed by a ton of hands-on labs, original research and real-world implementations of DevSecOps that work. The training starts with Application Security Automation for SAST, SCA and DAST, apart from Vulnerability Management and Correlation. Finally, the training concludes with leveraging Security Automation in the Cloud with detailed perspectives of implementing scalable security for cloud-native deployments. By the end of this training, attendees will have ideas and hands-on experience to successfully kickoff DevSecOps implementations.