SEC542: SANS India Autumn 2023
Provided by SANS
What You Will Learn
Web applications play a vital role in every modern organization. But, if your organization does not properly test and secure its web apps, adversaries can compromise these applications, damage business functionality, and steal data. Unfortunately, many organizations operate under the mistaken impression that a web application security scanner will reliably discover flaws in their systems.
SEC542 helps students move beyond push-button scanning to professional, thorough, high-value web application penetration testing.
Customers expect web applications to provide significant functionality and data access. Even beyond the importance of customer-facing web applications, internal web applications increasingly represent the most commonly used business tools within any organization. Unfortunately, there is no "patch Tuesday" for custom web applications, so major industry studies find that web application flaws play a major role in significant breaches and intrusions. Adversaries increasingly focus on these high-value targets either by directly abusing public-facing applications or by focusing on web apps as targets after an initial break-in.
SEC542 enables students to assess a web application's security posture and convincingly demonstrate the business impact should attackers exploit discovered vulnerabilities.
Modern cyber defense requires a realistic and thorough understanding of web application security issues. Anyone can learn to sling a few web hacks, but effective web application penetration testing requires something deeper.
SEC542 gives novice students the information and skills to become expert penetration testers with practice, and fills in all the foundational gaps for individuals with some penetration testing background.
Students will come to understand common web application flaws, as well as how to identify and exploit them with the intent of demonstrating the potential business impact. Along the way, students follow a field-tested and repeatable process to consistently find flaws. Information security professionals often struggle with helping their organizations understand risk in terms relatable to business. The goal of SEC542 is to better secure organizations through penetration testing, and not just show off hacking skills. The course will help students demonstrate the true impact of web application flaws not only through exploitation but also through proper documenting and reporting.
In addition to high-quality course content, SEC542 focuses heavily on in-depth, hands-on labs to ensure that students can immediately apply all they learn.
In addition to walking students through a web app penetration using more than 30 formal hands-on labs, the course culminates in a web application pen test tournament, powered by the SANS Netwars cyber range. This Capture-the-Flag event groups students into teams to apply their newly acquired command of web application penetration testing techniques in a fun way that hammers home lessons learned throughout the course.
BUSINESS TAKEAWAYS:
SANS SEC542 employs hands-on labs throughout the course to further students' understanding of web application penetration concepts. Some of the many hands-on labs in the course include:
Web applications play a vital role in every modern organization. But, if your organization does not properly test and secure its web apps, adversaries can compromise these applications, damage business functionality, and steal data. Unfortunately, many organizations operate under the mistaken impression that a web application security scanner will reliably discover flaws in their systems.
SEC542 helps students move beyond push-button scanning to professional, thorough, high-value web application penetration testing.
Customers expect web applications to provide significant functionality and data access. Even beyond the importance of customer-facing web applications, internal web applications increasingly represent the most commonly used business tools within any organization. Unfortunately, there is no "patch Tuesday" for custom web applications, so major industry studies find that web application flaws play a major role in significant breaches and intrusions. Adversaries increasingly focus on these high-value targets either by directly abusing public-facing applications or by focusing on web apps as targets after an initial break-in.
SEC542 enables students to assess a web application's security posture and convincingly demonstrate the business impact should attackers exploit discovered vulnerabilities.
Modern cyber defense requires a realistic and thorough understanding of web application security issues. Anyone can learn to sling a few web hacks, but effective web application penetration testing requires something deeper.
SEC542 gives novice students the information and skills to become expert penetration testers with practice, and fills in all the foundational gaps for individuals with some penetration testing background.
Students will come to understand common web application flaws, as well as how to identify and exploit them with the intent of demonstrating the potential business impact. Along the way, students follow a field-tested and repeatable process to consistently find flaws. Information security professionals often struggle with helping their organizations understand risk in terms relatable to business. The goal of SEC542 is to better secure organizations through penetration testing, and not just show off hacking skills. The course will help students demonstrate the true impact of web application flaws not only through exploitation but also through proper documenting and reporting.
In addition to high-quality course content, SEC542 focuses heavily on in-depth, hands-on labs to ensure that students can immediately apply all they learn.
In addition to walking students through a web app penetration using more than 30 formal hands-on labs, the course culminates in a web application pen test tournament, powered by the SANS Netwars cyber range. This Capture-the-Flag event groups students into teams to apply their newly acquired command of web application penetration testing techniques in a fun way that hammers home lessons learned throughout the course.
BUSINESS TAKEAWAYS:
- Apply a repeatable methodology to deliver high-value penetration tests
- Discover and exploit key web application flaws
- Explain the potential impact of web application vulnerabilities
- Convey the importance of web application security to an overall security posture
- Wield key web application attack tools more efficiently
- Write web application penetration test reports
- Apply OWASP's methodology to your web application penetration tests to ensure they are consistent, reproducible, rigorous, and under quality control.
- Analyze the results from automated web testing tools to validate findings, determine their business impact, and eliminate false positives.
- Manually discover key web application flaws.
- Use Python to create testing and exploitation scripts during a penetration test.
- Discover and exploit SQL Injection flaws to determine true risk to the victim organization.
- Understand and exploit insecure deserialization vulnerabilities with ysoserial and similar tools.
- Create configurations and test payloads within other web attacks.
- Fuzz potential inputs for injection attacks with ZAP, BurP'S Intruder and ffuf.
- Explain the impact of exploitation of web application flaws.
- Analyze traffic between the client and the server application using tools such as the Zed Attack Proxy and BurpSuite Pro to find security issues within the client-side application code.
- Manually discover and exploit Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
- Manually discover and exploit Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks.
- Use the Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF) to hook victim browsers, attack client software and the network, and evaluate the potential impact that XSS flaws have within an application.
- Use the Nuclei tool to perform scans of target web sites/servers.
- Perform two complete web penetration tests, one during the five sections of course instruction, and the other during the Capture the Flag exercise.
- Interception Proxies
- ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy)
- BurpSuite Professional
- Common Vulnerabilities
- SSL/TLS Misconfigurations
- Username Harvesting
- Authorization Flaws (Direct Object Reference)
- Command Injection
- SQL Injection
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- Insecure Deserialization
- XML External Entities (XXE)
- Local and Remote File Inclusion (LFI / RFI)
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
- Target Profiling
- Application Discovery
- Authentication and Authorization
- Session Management Flaws
- Automated Exploitation
SANS SEC542 employs hands-on labs throughout the course to further students' understanding of web application penetration concepts. Some of the many hands-on labs in the course include:
- DNS Harvesting and Virtual Host Discovery
- Authentication Bypass
- BurpSuite Pro's Sequencer
- Insecure Deserialization
- Reflected and Persistent XSS Attacks
- DOM-Based XSS Attacks
- Spidering and Forced Browsing
- WPScan
- SQL Injection
- Blind SQL Injection
- Server-Side Request Forgery
- CSRF Exploitation
- XML External Entities
- Metasploit for Web Application Attacks
- Exploiting Shellshock
- Leveraging the sqlmap tool
- BeEF and Browser Exploitation
- Username Harvesting
- Password Guessing Attacks
- HTML Injection
- Remote File Inclusion
- Local File Inclusion
- OS Command Injection
- Drupalgeddon and Drupalgeddon 2 Exploitation
- Python for Web Application Pen Testers
- Troubleshooting when automated tools fail
- Extensive use of both BurpSuite Pro and ZAP throughout the course
- Course media that includes both web application attack tools, as well as many vulnerable web applications for testing and training within the classroom and beyond
- Audio recordings of the course to review material after class
- A custom virtual machine tailored specifically for web application penetration testing, with all labs installed locally so they can be repeated even after the course
- Your own Burp Suite Professional license
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| Start date | Location / delivery | |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Nov 2023 | Virtual | Book now |
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