Securing JEE Web Services Training

Securing JEE Web Services is a lab-intensive, hands-on JEE security training course, essential for experienced enterprise developers who need to produce secure JEE-based web services. In addition to teaching basic programming skills, this course digs deep into sound processes and practices that apply to the entire software development lifecycle.

Designing, implementing, and deploying secure services presents unique challenges. In addition to dealing with all of the vulnerabilities and attacks associated with web applications, web services must address business-oriented concerns such as authentication, authorization, non-repudiation and others. The complicating factor is that all measures must be implemented within the constraints of standards and high-level s of inter-operability.

In this course, students thoroughly examine best practices for defensively coding JEE services, including XML processing. Students will repeatedly attack and then defend various assets associated with fully-functional web services. This hands-on approach drives home the mechanics of how to secure JEE web services in the most practical of terms.

Security experts agree that the least effective approach to security is "penetrate and patch". It is far more effective to "bake" security into an application throughout its lifecycle. After spending significant time trying to defend a poorly designed (from a security perspective) web application, developers are ready to learn how to build secure web applications starting at project inception. The final portion of this course builds on the previously learned mechanics for building defenses by exploring how design and analysis can be used to build stronger applications from the beginning of the software lifecycle.

A key component to our Best Defense IT Security Training Series, this workshop is a companion course with several developer-oriented courses and seminars. Although this edition of the course is Java-specific, it may also be presented using .Net or other programming languages.

Students who attend Securing JEE Web Services will leave the course armed with the skills required to recognize actual and potential software vulnerabilities, implement defenses for those vulnerabilities, and test those defenses for sufficiency.

This course quickly introduces developers to the most common security vulnerabilities faced by web applications today. Each vulnerability is examined from a Java/JEE perspective through a process of describing the threat and attack mechanisms, recognizing associated vulnerabilities, and, finally, designing, implementing, and testing effective defenses. Multiple practical labs reinforce these concepts with real vulnerabilities and attacks. Students are then challenged to design and implement the layered defenses they will need in defending their own applications.

Working in a lab-intensive, hands-on programming environment, led by our security experts, guided by our expert security team, students will learn to:

• Understand the consequences for not properly handling untrusted data such as denial of service, cross-site scripting, and injections
• Be able to test web applications with various attack techniques to determine the existence of and effectiveness of layered defenses
• Prevent and defend the many potential vulnerabilities associated with untrusted data
• Understand the concepts and terminology behind supporting, designing, and deploying secure services
• Appreciate the magnitude of the problems associated with service security and the potential risks associated with those problems
• Understand the currently accepted best practices for supporting the many security needs of services.
• Understand the vulnerabilities associated with authentication and authorization within the context of web services
• Be able to detect, attack, and implement defenses for authentication and authorization functionality
• Understand the dangers and mechanisms behind Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Injection attacks
• Be able to detect, attack, and implement defenses against XSS and Injection attacks
• Understand the concepts and terminology behind defensive, secure, coding
• Understand the use of Threat Modeling as a tool in identifying software vulnerabilities based on realistic threats against meaningful assets
• Perform both static code reviews and dynamic application testing to uncover vulnerabilities in Java-based web services
• Design and develop strong, robust authentication and authorization implementations within the context of JEE
• Understand the fundamentals of XML Digital Signature as well as how it can be used as part of the defensive infrastructure for web services
• Understand the fundamentals of XML Encryption as well as how it can be used as part of the defensive infrastructure for web services
• Understand and defend vulnerabilities that are specific to XML and XML parsers

This class is "technology-centric", designed to train attendees in essential secure coding and development skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices.

The course provides a solid foundation in basic terminology and concepts, extended and built upon throughout the engagement. Students will examine various recognized attacks against web applications. Processes and best practices are discussed and illustrated through both discussions and group activities.

The second portion of the course steps through a series of vulnerabilities illustrating in very real terms the right way to implement secure web services. The last portion of the course examines several design patterns that can be used to facilitate better application architecture, design, implementation, and deployment.

Session: Foundation

• Misconceptions
  • Thriving Industry of Identity Theft
  • Dishonor Roll of Data Breaches
  • TJX: Anatomy of a Disaster
  • Heartland: What? Again?
• Security Concepts
  • Terminology and Players
  • Assets, Threats, and Attacks
  • OWASP
  • CWE/SANS Top 25 Programming Errors
    • Categories
    • What they mean to your services
• Defensive Coding Principles
  • Security Is A Lifecycle Issue
  • Minimize Attack Surface
  • Manage Resources
  • Application States
  • Compartmentalize
  • Defense In Depth - Layered Defense
  • Consider All Application States
  • Not Trusting The Untrusted
  • Security Defect Mitigation
  • Leverage Experience
• Reality
  • Recent, Relevant Incidents
  • Find Security Defects In Web Application

Session: Applying Security to SOA

• SOA Overview
  • SOA Defined
  • Cross-Cutting Concerns
• Challenges
  • Identity and Propagation
  • Real-time Transactions
  • Diverse Environments
  • Information Protection
  • Standards compliance
• Services and Security
  • SOA Components
  • Service Lifecycle
  • Security Policies
  • Appliances and Gateways
• Authentication and Authorization
  • Requirements
  • Applicable OASIS Standards
  • SAML
  • SAML Assertions
  • Authentication, Attributes, and Authorization Statements
  • SAML Usage Scenarios

Session: Defending XML Processing

• Defending XML
  • Understanding common attacks and how to defend
  • Operating in safe mode
  • Using standards-based security
  • XML-aware security infrastructure
• Defending Web Services
  • Security exposures
  • Transport-level security
  • Message-level security
  • WS-Security
  • Attacks and defenses

Session: WS-Security

• WS-Security
  • WS-Security Stack
  • JEE and WS-Security
  • Best Practices
• XML Digital Signature
  • Architecture
  • Working with XML Digital Signature
  • Integrating XML Digital Signature into Web Services
  • Best Practices
• XML Encryption
  • Architecture
  • Working with XML Encryption
  • Integrating XML Encryption into Web Services
  • Best Practices

Session: Top Security Vulnerabilities

• Unvalidated Input
  • Sources of Untrusted Input
  • Trust Boundaries
  • Designing and Implementing Defenses
• Overview of Regular Expressions
• Broken Access Control
• Broken Authentication and Session Management
• Cross Site Scripting (XSS/CSRF) Flaws
  • What and How
  • Designing and Implementing Defenses
• Injection Flaws
  • What and How
  • SQL, XML, and Others
  • Designing and Implementing Defenses
• Error Handling and Information Leakage
  • What and How
  • Four Dimensions of Error Response
  • Proper Error Handling Design
• Insecure Storage
  • What and How
  • Designing and Implementing Defenses
• Insecure Management of Configuration
• Direct Object Access
• Spoofing

Session: Secure Software Development (SSD)

• SSD Process Overview
  • CLASP Defined
  • CLASP Applied
• Asset, Boundary, and Vulnerability Identification
• Vulnerability Response
• Design and Code Reviews
• Applying Processes and Practices
• Risk Analysis

Session: Security Testing

• Testing as Lifecycle Process
• Testing Planning and Documentation
• Testing Tools And Processes
  • Principles
  • Reviews
  • Testing
  • Tools
• Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
• Testing Practices
  • Authentication Testing
  • Session Management Testing
  • Data Validation Testing
  • Denial Of Service Testing
  • Web Services Testing

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