Developing Security-Enhanced Web Applications
(Microsoft Training Course: 2300) - 3 days - £1700 exc VAT

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills that are needed to build Web applications by using security-enhanced coding techniques. This course is intended for students who are responsible for the design and development of Web applications. These students typically have three to five years of experience in developing or designing distributed Web applications

1. Introduction to Web Security
2. Planning for Web Application Security
3. Validating User Input
4. Internet Information Services Authentication
5. Securing Web Pages
6. Securing File System Data
7. Securing Microsoft SQL Server
8. Helping to Protect Communication Privacy and Data Integrity
9. Encrypting, Hashing, and Signing Data
10. Testing Web Applications for Security

---

---

Module 1: Introduction to Web Security

• Why Build Security-Enhanced Web Applications?
• Using the STRIDE Model to Determine Threats
• Implementing Security: An Overview

Skills

• Describe why security is an essential consideration in Web application development.
  
• Describe the basic methods of cryptography, hashing, and digital signing.
  

top

---

Module 2: Planning for Web Application Security

• A Design Process for Building Security-Enhanced Web Applications

Skills

• Describe the iterative process of designing security into a Web application and be able to describe how each step relates to the other steps.
  
• Categorize and identify the most common types of attacks, the potential threat that those attacks pose to systems, services, and data within the organization, and the relationship between these threats.
  

top

---

Module 3: Validating User Input

• User Input
• Types of User Input Attacks
• Performing Validation
• Revealing as Little Information as Possible to the User
• Lab: Verifying User Input

Skills

• Identify the sources of user input in a Web application.
  
• Describe the security aspects of the client/server Web paradigm.
  
• Implement user input verification.
  
• Use communications analysis and coding best practices to avoid providing information to users that can be leveraged for security attacks.
  
• Use proper error handling to help ensure all fallback paths are expected, wanted, and do not suspend resource allocations.
  
• Reduce the impact of enialerviceDenial of Service (DoS) attacks of varying types, such as application crashing, CPU starvation, resource starvation, and bandwidth choking.
  

top

---

Module 4: Internet Information Services Authentication

• Introduction to Web Client Authentication
• Configuring Access Permission for a Web Server
• Selecting a Security-Enhanced Client Authentication Method
• Running Services As an Authenticated User
• Lab: Authentication and Access Control

Skills

• Describe all of the authentication methods that are supported by IIS and Windows 2000 Server and be able to select the best method for a given set of requirements.
  
• Use knowledge of Windows 2000 access control mechanisms and process identification to properly configure identities for all of the processes in an ASP/COM+ Web application processing path.
  
• Use knowledge of Windows 2000 access control mechanisms and process identification to properly configure resource access for the identities that are defined for a Web application.
  

top

---

Module 5: Securing Web Pages

• ASP Forms-Based Authentication
• .NET Code Access and Role-Based Security
• Overview of ASP.NET Authentication Methods
• Working with Windows-Based Authentication in ASP.NET security
• Working with ASP.NET Forms-Based Authentication
• Lab: Securing Web Pages

Skills

• Describe the elements that make up the core security model of the .NET Framework.
  
• Use security best practices and a complete understanding of the security model while implementing ASP.NET Web applications.
  

top

---

Module 6: Securing File System Data

• Overview of Securing Files
• Windows Access Control
• Creating ACLs Programmatically
• Helping to Protect ASP.NET Web Application Files
• Lab: Securing Files with ACLs

Skills

• Describe how the Windows access control mechanisms are used to help protect file system data.
  
• Use the features of Windows to help protect Web application data from tampering.
  
• Use ASP.NET Web.config files to restrict access to files that are located in an ASP.NET Web application.
  

top

---

Module 7: Securing Microsoft SQL Server

• SQL Server Connections and Security
• SQL Server Role-Based Security
• Securing SQL Server Communication
• Preventing SQL Injection Attacks
• Lab: Securing Microsoft SQL Server Data

Skills

• Use the SQL Server Security model and ADO.NET to help protect a Web application against attacks.
  

top

---

Module 8: Helping to Protect Communication Privacy and Data Integrity

• Introduction to Cryptography
• Working with Digital Certificates
• Management
• Using Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security Protocols
• Using Internet Protocol Security
• Lab: Obtaining a Server Certificate
• Lab: Helping to Protect Communication Privacy and Data Integrity

Skills

• Help protect the portions of a Web application that require private communications by using SSL
  

top

---

Module 9: Encrypting, Hashing, and Signing Data

• Encryption and Digital Signing Libraries
• Using CAPICOM
• Using System.Security.Cryptography Namespace to Hash Data
• Using System.Security.Cryptography Namespace to Encrypt and Sign Data
• Lab: Hashing Data

Skills

• Use one of the Cryptographic Services classes of the System.Security.Cryptography namespace to transform a block of data to cyphertext.
  

top

---

Module 10: Testing Web Applications for Security

• Testing Security in a Web Application
• Creating a Security Test Plan
• Performing Security Testing
• Lab: Test Cases for Security Testing

Skills

• Differentiate security testing from other types of testing.
  
• Create a security test plan.
  
• Successfully carry out a security test plan.
  

top

---

Before attending this course, students must have the following pre-requisites:

• Familiarity with n-tier application architecture.
• Experience in developing or designing distributed Web applications.
• Experience with Microsoft C# and/or Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
• Experience in writing server-side and client-side scripts by using Active Server Pages (ASP) or Microsoft ASP.NET
• Familiarity with SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is recommended
• In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:
• Course 2310—Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
  

After completing this course, students will be able to Define the basic principals of, and motivations for, Web security; Perform a threat analysis of Web-accessible assets; Use knowledge of authentication, Security Identifiers (SIDs), Access Control Lists (ACLs), impersonation, and the concept of running with least privilege to help ensure access to only those system resources that are necessary to accomplish normal request processing; help protect file system data by using the features in Microsoft Windows 2000; use the Microsoft SQL Server Security model and Microsoft ADO.NET to help protect a Web application against SQL Server injection attacks; use one of the CryptoService classes of the System.Security.Cryptography namespace to transform a block of data into cyphertext; help protect the portion of a Web application that requires private communications by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL); use general security coding best practices to help ensure a security-enhanced Web application; use the Microsoft .NET Framework to build security-enhanced Web applications; employ a structured approach to testing for Web application security; use a systematic approach and knowledge of security best practices to help protect an existing Web application