Cert Prep: Cyber Secure Coder (CSC-110)

Course details

Getting certified by CertNexus as a Cyber Secure Coder validates your ability to design and manage highly secure professional applications. For all developers, in all programming languages, and on every possible platform, the CSC-110 certification has the power to boost your coding career. In this course from ITProTV, learn the skills you need to know to prepare for and tackle the Cyber Secure Coder (CSC-110) certification exam.

Develop your understanding of how secure coding practices can protect your organization against various types of vulnerabilities. Learn how to identify and minimize software and security vulnerabilities, handle exploits and attacks as they occur, and develop secure code and programming practices that can help prevent exploitation in an application. Along the way, get tips on common protection tools and testing techniques for ongoing maintenance.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Overview

1. Handling Vulnerabilities

02 - Prior knowledge and expectations
03 - Gather software requirements
04 - Challenge - Identity requirements
05 - Solution - Identify requirements
06 - Factors that undermine software security
07 - Software vulnerabilities and attack phases
08 - Attack patterns
09 - Challenge - Find vulnerabilities
10 - Solution - Find vulnerabilities
11 - Challenge - New password requirements
12 - Solution - New password requirements
13 - Challenge - Hashing passwords
14 - Solution - Hashing passwords
15 - Vulnerability intelligence
16 - Challenge - Vulnerability search
17 - Solution - Vulnerability search

2. Designing for Security

18 - Bugs in software
19 - External libraries and services
20 - Handling errors securely
21 - Human-related security
22 - Security requirements and design
23 - Security through the software lifecycle
24 - Challenge - Exploring leftover artifacts
25 - Solution - Exploring leftover artifacts

3. Developing Secure Code

26 - Principles of secure design
27 - Avoid common mistakes
28 - Challenge - Common security design flaws
29 - Solution - Common security design flaws
30 - Understand risk and threats
31 - Risk response strategies
32 - Exploit countermeasures

4. Implementing Common Protections

33 - Guidelines for secure coding
34 - Buffer overflows and prevention
35 - Race conditions
36 - Challenge - Use locks to remediate race condition
37 - Solution - Use locks to remediate race condition
38 - OWASP top ten platform vulnerabilities
39 - Web application vulnerabilities deep dive
40 - Mobile application vulnerabilities deep dive
41 - IoT vulnerabilities deep dive
42 - Desktop vulnerabilities deep dive
43 - Privacy vulnerability defects

5. Testing and Maintaining Software Security

44 - Secure session management
45 - Users, protections, and passwords
46 - Encryption and data protections
47 - Error handling and protections

Conclusion

48 - Testing software for security
49 - Monitoring and logging of production applications