Certified Security Champion (CSC)

Course code: CSC

The students master application security, OWASP Top 10 basics, and secure coding practices. You’ll identify and fix code vulnerabilities using CI/CD tools to strengthen pipeline security and bolster organizational defense.

Course Inclusions:

Course Manual
3 Years of Course Videos and Checklists
Access to a dedicated Mattermost channel
40+ Guided Exercises
Earn 24 CPE Points on course completion
30 days of Browser-based Lab Access
One exam attempt for the Certified Security Champion certification

Course dates

Starting date: Upon request

Type: E-learning

Course duration: 30 days

Language: en

Price without VAT: 470 EUR

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Course description

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Building solid foundations that are required to understand the application security landscape.

Building foundational knowledge required to work with infrastructure security.

Understanding the wide range of skills and abilities that are required to be a security champion.

Embedding security while creating, running, and maintaining modern applications.

Gaining abilities to apply practical application security skills in a real-world environment.

Gaining skills and knowledge to liaise with security and other departments to make everyone responsible for the security.

Gaining analytical abilities to observe and advise various security controls, and solutions to secure DevOps.

Understanding the fundamentals of assessing and managing risks.

Course structure

Chapter 1: AppSec Basics

Introduction to Application Security.
HTTP Security basics.
Introduction to Burp Suite.
OWASP top 10 basics
- Injection (SQL and other injections).
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and SSRF.
- Broken Authentication and Session Management.
- XML External Entities (XXE).
- Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR).
- Security Misconfiguration.
- Unvalidated Requests and Forwards.
Hands-on labs
- SQL Injection.
- XSS and CSRF.
- SSRF.
- Local File Inclusion (LFI) and File Upload issues.

Chapter 2: Secure Code Review

What is Secure Code Review?
How to approach Secure code review.
Tools of the trade.
Reviewing the code from a security perspective
- Input and output validation.
- Authentication issues.
- Authorization issues.
- Security Misconfigurations.
Hands-on labs
- Input validation using industry best practices.
- Output encoding to prevent client-side attacks like XSS.
- Bruteforce attacks and secret questions.
- Information leakage with password reset workflows.
- Best practices in implementing role-based access control.
- Risks with unvalidated redirects and forwards.

Chapter 3: Primer on Risk Management

Introduction to Risk management.
Risk Assessment.
Risk Calculation.
Risk Treatment
- How to mitigate risks.
- How to avoid risks.
- How to transfer risks.
- How to accept risks.
Plan, design, and implement a risk-management process.
Understand the current threat landscape.
Continuously improve security systems to reduce risk exposure.
Ensure business continuity while reducing the risks to the organization.

Chapter 4: Threat Modeling

What is Threat Modelling?
Risk Management vs. Threat modeling.
STRIDE vs. DREAD approaches.
Threat Modeling Process and its challenges
- Decompose the application.
- Identify the Threats.
- Document and rate the threats, and risks.
- DDesign and create defenses.
Classical Threat modeling tools and how they fit in CI/CD pipeline.
Hands-On Labs:
- Automate security requirements as code.
- Using ThreatSpec to achieve Threat Modelling as Code.

Chapter 5: DevSecOps Basics

DevOps Building Blocks – People, Process, and Technology.
DevOps Principles – Culture, Automation, Measurement and Sharing (CAMS).
Benefits of DevOps – Speed, Reliability, Availability, Scalability, Automation, Cost, and Visibility.
Overview of the DevSecOps critical toolchain
- Repository management tools.
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Communication and sharing tools.
- Security as Code (SaC) tools.
Common Challenges faced when using the DevOps principles.
Secure SDLC
- Overview of secure SDLC and CI/CD.
- Review of security activities in secure SDLC.
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
Hands-On Labs:
- How to embed SCA tool into CI/CD pipeline.
- How to embed SAST tool into CI/CD pipeline.

Chapter 6: Infrastructure as Code and Its Security

Infrastructure as Code and its benefits.
Platform + Infrastructure Definition + Configuration Management.
Introduction to Ansible.
Benefits of Ansible.
Push and Pull based configuration management systems.
Modules, tasks, roles, and Playbooks.
Tools and Services that help to achieve IaC.
Hands-On Labs:
- Docker and Ansible.
- Using Ansible to create Golden images and harden Infrastructure.

Chapter 7: Agile Communications, Collaboration, and Soft Skills

The need for Agile communication and collaboration.
How to handle conflicting priorities among teams.
How to work security teams to find common ground.
Holding people accountable for security.
Staying empathetic and assertive.
Plan, design, and implement processes to resolve any issues among the teams.

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