Security Testing Basics (Getting started for Beginners)

All the basics that are required for Beginners to get started with Security Testing are covered in this course

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Security Testing Basics (Getting started for Beginners)

What You Will Learn!

  • Security Testing Getting Started
  • Security Testing for Beginners
  • Security Testing Basics
  • Security Testing from Scratch

Description

In this course, I have covered all the Security Testing that are required for Beginners to get started with.


If you are a beginner or fresher or new to Security Testing, and want to figure out whether this Security Testing field is for you or not, then this course is for you. This is an overview course, where by the end of this course, you can find out whether Security Testing is for you or not, its opportunities, basic knowledge and guidance required for moving into Security Testing field from Software Testing field.


The below are the different basic topics that are covered in this course:


  1. What is Security Testing?

  2. Importance of Security Testing with Examples

  3. Future (Jobs, Skill Shortage, Demand, unemployment rate, Pay scale and Career Advice)

  4. Security Testing versus Vulnerability Assessment versus Penetration Testing

  5. Security Testing Versus Hacking

  6. Don't end up in Jail

  7. Manual Security Testing Versus Security Testing Tools

  8. CIA Triad - Basic High Level Objectives of Security Testing

  9. Security Testing - Vulnerability versus Threat versus Risk

  10. Security Testing (Basics) - HTTP Methods

  11. Security Testing (Basics) - HTTP Status Codes

  12. Security Testing (Basics) - Cookie

  13. Security Testing (Basics) - Cookie versus Session ID versus Session

  14. Security Testing (Basics) - Cryptography and different Techniques

  15. Security Testing (Basics) - Symmetric Key Encryption

  16. Security Testing (Basics) - Asymmetric Key Encryption

  17. Security Testing (Basics) - Symmetric & Asymmetric Key Sizes

  18. Security Testing (Basics) - Finding Asymmetric Key Encryption used by different websites

  19. Security Testing (Basics) - Encoding and Decoding

  20. Security Testing (Basics) - Hashing

  21. Security Testing (Basics) - HTTP is Stateless

  22. Security Testing (Basics) - HTTPS

  23. Security Testing (Basics) - Input Validation and Output Encoding

  24. Security Testing (Basics) - Client Side Validation versus Server Side Validation

  25. Security Testing (Basics) - Blacklisting versus Whitelisting (Input Validation)

  26. Security Testing Basics - SSL versus TLS

  27. Security Testing Basics - HTTP versus HTTPS

  28. Security Testing Basics - Authentication vesus Authorization

  29. Security Testing Terminology - Payloads and Malicious Input

  30. Security Testing Terminology - DAST

  31. Security Testing - Demo Application for Practice

  32. Security Tesitng Process (Testing Phase of SDLC)

  33. OWASP

  34. OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

  35. Injection vulnerability and different types

  36. SQL Basics for SQL Injection

  37. Attack Surface and Attack Vector

  38. SQL Injection (SQLi)

  39. Anatomy of SQL Injection Payload

  40. Security Testing - Second Demo Application for Practice

  41. SQL Injection Payload - Vulnerability Assessment

  42. SQL Injection Attack Surface

  43. Installing BurpSuite

  44. Using BurpSuite as Proxy Tool for Intercepting Requests

  45. Configuring BurpSuite as Proxy with Firefox browser

  46. Configuring BurpSuite as Proxy for Chrome browser

  47. Configuring BurpSuite as Proxy for Internet Explorer browser

  48. Installing WebGoat

  49. Bypassing Client Side Validation using BurpSuite

  50. Increasing Attack Surface using BurpSuite


Who Should Attend!

  • Beginners who want to get started with Security Testing and learn its basics
  • For the one's who want to get into or move to Security Testing field, from regular Software Testing field.

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Tags

  • Web Security

Subscribers

27

Lectures

50

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