SANS Security Awareness for Developers (min x5)

Overview

This SANS SSA Developer awareness product, provides video based learning, with knowledge checks to support mastery of the topics. By educating everyone involved in the software development process including developers, architects, managers, testers, business owners, and partners, organizations can reduce the chances of becoming a victim of an increasing number of data security threats by building applications with security designed-in by default.

Fundamentals

• Top Design Flaws
• Threat Awareness
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle

Core Concepts

• OWASP Top-10
• Classic Vulnerabilities

Application Security

• Mobile Application Development
• Application Security

Developer Modules

• Progressive learning tracks appropriately leveled to match your development community
• OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks
• Secure Code Best Practices

Cover popular web application coding languages

• Node.js
• Python
• Java
• C#
• PHP

Prerequisites

There are no pre-requisites.
Target audience

Dev Team Leaders, Software Architects, Junior, Mid-level and Senior Developers

Objectives

Video Modules

Motion-graphic modules address specific OWASP Top-10 2021 fundamentals topics.

• Average Module length = 03:40
• Total course time = 44:33

This promotes development of secure products

Combined with short quizzes to demonstrate topic mastery

Factsheets

Highly engaging infographic posters provide at-a-glance information

Reinforce the most important skills and learning objectives

Outline

Topics covered in the SANS SSA Developer Training

OWASP Top-10

• Broken Access Control
• Cryptographic Failures
• Injection
• Insecure Design
• Security Misconfiguration
• Vulnerable/Outdated Components
• Identification & Authentication
• Software & Data Integrity
• Security Logging and Monitoring
• Server-side Request Forgery

Mobile Application Security

• Insecure Data Storage
• Unintended Data Leakage
• Broken Cryptography
• Client-side Injection
• Reverse Engineering

Secure Software Development Lifecycle

• Waterfall Model
• Agile
• DevOps

Secure Coding Principles

• Securely Using Full Stacks
• Securely Using APIs
• Secure Cloud Developer

Top Design Flaws

• Defense in Depth
• Separation of Concerns
• Single Responsibility
• Least Knowledge
• Don;t Repeat Yourself

Classic Issues

• Memory Inspection
• Buffer Overflow
• Improper Error Handling
• Cross-site Request Forgery
• Unvalidated Redirects & Forwards