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Hacking Web Applications (The Art of Hacking Series) LiveLessons

By Omar Santos
Published Nov 7, 2018 by Cisco Press. Part of the LiveLessons series.

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ISBN-10: 0-13-526140-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-526140-8

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5+ Hours of Video Instruction

More than 5 hours of video instruction to help you perform ethical hacking, penetration testing, and security posture assessment through compromising, analyzing, and mitigating web application vulnerabilities.

Hacking Web Applications (The Art of Hacking Series) LiveLessons provides step-by-step, real-life scenarios for performing security assessments (penetration testing) through web application vulnerabilities.

This course shows you how to set up a penetration testing lab for web app pen testing where you will learn how to perform reconnaissance and profiling. After these initial steps, you will learn to exploit many vulnerabilities including authentication, session management, injection-based, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, and cryptographic implementations. You will also learn how to assess and perform application programming interface (API) attacks, client-side attacks, and additional web application vulnerability attacks.

The primary objective of this course is not to perform malicious attacks, but rather to provide you with step-by-step guidance so you can learn ethical hacking, penetration testing, and security posture assessment as it pertains to web applications. Through the skills explored throughout the course lessons, you will learn the various concepts associated with many different leading-edge offensive security skills in the industry. The course is full of multimedia tutorials and hands-on demos that users can apply to real-world scenarios, and cyber security veteran Omar Santos provides critical information for anyone interested in pursuing an ethical hacking career or simply keeping abreast of evolving threats to keep the web applications of your or your clients’ networks secure from vulnerabilities.

Skill Level

Intermediate networking and basic hacking knowledge

Learn How To

Assess everything you need to know to perform ethical hacking and penetration testing on web applications
Understand web application protocols, HTTP Request/Response, session management and cookies, DevOps, cloud services, web application frameworks, and Docker containers to better assess web application vulnerabilities
Build your own web application lab for penetration testing
Profile and perform passive and active reconnaissance on web applications through several techniques and applications
Exploit authentication and session management responsibilities
Exploit and mitigate injection-based command, SQL, and XML vulnerabilities
Exploit and mitigate Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities
Exploit and mitigate cryptographic vulnerabilities
Understand and test APIs to mitigate web application attacks
Understand and mitigate client-side, HTML5, and AJAX vulnerabilities
Examine additional avenues where you can exploit (and protect) web application vulnerabilities

Who Should Take This Course

Any network and security professional who is starting a career in ethical hacking and penetration testing
Individuals preparing for the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), CompTIA PenTest+, and any other ethical hacking certification
Any cybersecurity professional who wants to learn the skills required to become a professional ethical hacker and wants to learn more about web application hacking methodologies and attacks

Course Requirements

Requires basic knowledge of networking and cybersecurity concepts and technologies

Lesson descriptions

Lesson 1, “Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing,” reviews ethical hacking and penetration testing basics before moving on to pen testing methodologies, surveying the evolution of web applications, and reviewing the programming languages you need to know to perform web application hacking.

Lesson 2, “Overview of Web Applications for Security Professionals,” reviews the different web application protocols before deep diving into HTTP Request/Response, session management, and cookies. The second half of this lesson looks at cloud services, web application frameworks, docker containers, and Kubernetes.

Lesson 3, “Build Your Own Web Application Lab,” covers how to build your own web application lab environment for penetration testing via Kali Linux. You will also learn about web app vulnerabilities and how to hack them using DVWA, WebGoat, Hackazon, and Web Security Dojo. The lesson concludes with a look at web application proxies, cyber ranges, and capture the flag events to enhance your web app hacking skills in a safe environment

Lesson 4, “Reconnaissance and Profiling Web Applications,” covers the basics of passive and active reconnaissance using search engines, public information, and a variety of other useful utilities. Next, you will also learn about CMS and framework identification before moving on to implementing web crawlers to perform directory brute force attacks. The lesson concludes with a look at how to implement a variety of web application scanners.

Lesson 5, “Authentication and Session Management Vulnerabilities,” explores web application authentication scheme and session management mechanisms, their related vulnerabilities, and how to exploit and mitigate them.

Lesson 6, “Exploiting Injection-Based Vulnerabilities,” covers how to exploit command, SQL, and XML injection-based vulnerabilities, as well as how to mitigate them.

Lesson 7, “Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities,” reviews Reflected, Stored, and DOM-based XSS vulnerabilities as well as CSRF vulnerabilities. The lesson moves on with a look at evading web application security controls before concluding with details on how to mitigate the XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities covered earlier in the lesson.

Lesson 8, “Exploiting Weak Cryptographic Implementations,” reviews the basics of cryptography, encryption, and hashing protocols before moving on to how identify common flaws in data storage and transmission. Armed with these fundamentals, you will learn how to identify, exploit, and mitigate crypto-based attacks and vulnerabilities.

Lesson 9, “Attacking Application Programming Interfaces (APIs),” provides you with an understand of APIs as well as a look at some tools used to test APIs in pen testing.

Lesson 10, “Client-side Attacks,” reviews client-side code and storage before exploring how to identify and mitigate HTML5, AJAX, and other client-side implementation vulnerabilities.

Lesson 11, “Additional Web Application Security Vulnerabilities and Attacks,” concludes the course with a review of some common web application security flaws including insecure direct object references, path traversal, and information disclosure. You will also learn the basics of web application fuzzing.

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Lesson 1 Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing
Lesson 2 Overview of Web Applications for Security Professionals
Lesson 3 Build Your Own Web Application Lab
Lesson 4 Reconnaissance and Profiling Web Applications
Lesson 5 Authentication and Session Management Vulnerabilities
Lesson 6 Exploiting Injection-Based Vulnerabilities
Lesson 7 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities
Lesson 8 Exploiting Weak Cryptographic Implementations
Lesson 9 Attacking Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Lesson 10 Client-side Attacks
Lesson 11 Additional Web Application Security Vulnerabilities and Attacks

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