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Course Overview

This course is designed for aspiring security professionals who want to explore the fundamentals of web application security. It provides hands-on experience in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in real-world web applications. Whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your skills, this course offers practical guidance on setting up lab environments and tackling common security threats.

This course begins with an introduction to web security, highlighting the core challenges and why securing web applications is essential. You'll learn to set up a lab environment for practical testing. The course covers various tools and techniques, starting with brute-forcing usernames, passwords, and web resources using Burp Suite, Dirb, and Dirbuster. It also delves into session hijacking, SQL injection, remote file execution, and more advanced topics like Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), ensuring comprehensive exposure to modern web attack methods.

By the end of this course, you’ll gain the skills to identify, exploit, and defend against common web vulnerabilities, building a solid foundation in web security.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand and perform the basic steps in order to perform a penetration testing of a web application
  • Understand web application's security principles and potential dangers
  • Be able to gather information about your target
  • You will learn how to find vulnerabilities in your target web application
  • Exploit found vulnerabilities and get control over remote servers
  • Understand the penetration testing process
  • As a web application developer, you will understand how to secure your application

Program Curriculum

  • Introduction
  • Core Problems - Why Web Security?
  • Preparing the Lab Environment
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Usernames and Passwords Brute-Forcing using Burp
  • Spider and Analyze a Website using Burp
  • Brute-forcing Web Resources using Dirb and Dirbuster
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Session Hijacking Through Man in The Middle Attack
  • Intercept and Access Traffic Over HTTPS. Get Facebook or Gmail Passwords
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • SQL Injection
  • Exploiting SQLi using Sqlmap and Getting Remote Shell
  • Upload and Remote File Execution
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Reflected XSS – Session Hijacking using Cross Site Scripting
  • Stored or Persistent Cross Site Scripting
  • Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • Chapter 5 Quiz
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Instructor

Gabriel Avramescu

Gabriel Avramescu is a Senior Information Security Consultant and an IT Trainer with certifications like OSWE (Offensive Security Web Expert), CREST Registered Penetration Tester (CRT), ECIH (EC-Council Incident Handling), Ec-Council ICS-SCADA Cybersecurity, OSCE (Offensive Security Certified Expert), OSWP (Offensive Security Wireless Professional), OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator), ISO 270001 Lead Auditor, ECSA (EC-Council Security Analyst), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), CCNA and CCNA Security, CCNP Routing and CCNP Switching, Advanced Linux&InfoSEC, VMWare vSphere Install, Configure, Manage, and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS/MCP 70-642): Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, etc.

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