Udemy – Web application Penetration Testing

A Beginners’ guide to Practical Web Security.

What you’ll learn:
Students will learn Web Application Penetration Testing
Students will learn how to identify vulnerabilities in web applications
Students will learn how to exploit vulnerabilities identified in web applications
Students will learn how to prevent common vulnerabilities in web applications
Students will learn vulnerability categories covered in OWASP TOP 10 2017

Requirements
A computer with administrative access, if you want to follow the hands-on exercises.
Good to have knowledge of any one programming language.

Description
Are you a beginner and looking to break into the AppSec field? Don’t know where to start your Application Security journey? Curious to know what it takes to get started with Bug Bounties? Then, this course is a great start for you. This practical web application penetration testing course is suitable for beginners and it covers a wide range of common web application attacks. Once you get the foundations right, you can build your skills on your own from there. This entry level web security course also provides a custom web application developed in Java specifically for this course. In addition to it, the course also covers some challenges in a publicly available vulnerable web application. The course provides necessary background details to the concepts wherever necessary.

Following are some of the topics covered in this course:

Web Application Architecture

HTTP Requests and Responses

SQL Injection – Authentication Bypass

Manually Exploiting Error Based SQL Injection

SQLMap for exploiting SQL Injection

Cross Site Scripting – Reflected, Stored and DOM Based

Cross Site Request Forgery

Broken Cryptography

Access Control Issues

Arbitrary File Uploads

XPATH Injection

XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

Java Deserialization

Command Execution via Security Misconfigurations

Command Execution via outdate software

You will learn the following for most vulnerabilities discussed in the course.

Identifying a vulnerability

How to exploit an identified vulnerability

How to prevent the discussed vulnerability

NOTE: This is course is being updated and new content will be uploaded until all the advertised modules are covered.

Who this course is for
Bug bounty hunters
Penetration testers
Security Auditors
Red Team Operators
Web Application Developers
Anyone interested in security.