Defensive Programming

This training will take you step by step through the process of developing defensive design practices, which can substitute common defensive coding, for the better of software design and implementation.

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  • DevSecOps Engineer
Non-certified
Beginner
  • English
2 days
09:00 - 17:00
Lunch incl.

Short summary

Do you recognize having to defend from nulls, zeros, surprising cases hitting switch instruction, impossible else branches, and so on? And is your life a constant struggle with issues caused by unexpected data or invalid system state? During this training, Defensive Programming, you will learn how to defend by means of design, so that almost all explicit defensive code can be removed. First of all, you’ll discover how to build validation. second, you’ll explore how exactly to design a public interface. And finally, you’ll cover how to unify error flows, so nothing unpredictable can take you by surprise.
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Course objectives

The learning objectives for Defensive programming include an understanding of:

  • Intermediate level of knowledge to protect applications and fix security flaws
  • In-depth understanding of all the defensive programming techniques and principles
  • Brief overview of testing applications for vulnerabilities
  • Ability to identify internet resources to enable fast learning
  • Practical, hands on, and real world workshop enables learning by actually coding
  • Being able to recognize patterns and common vulnerabilities
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Course topics

  • The Forrest Rabbit Analogy
  • Disclaimer and Responsible activities
  • The defensive programming principles
  • The OWASP foundation and projects
  • Understanding the common application security risks
  • A quick overview of Injection Attacks
  • Protecting queries against database
  • Input Validation Whitelisting
  • Blacklisting
  • Regex based
  • Typecasting based
  • Encoding and Decoding Url Encoding Base64 Encoding
  • Output Encoding and types
  • Cryptography
  • Encryption and Decryption
  • Hashing
  • Secure Failovers and Logging
  • Protecting Data during transit and storage; HTTPS; File Storage
  • HTTP Header based security and recent advancements
  • Securing the configurations
  • Types of Authentication
  • Secure Account Management Password storage
  • Protecting user identities so Secure Reset functionalities so Securely logging
  • Prevention against automated attacks
  • CAPTCHA
  • OTP
  • Randomized tokens
  • Cookie security Session Management Time Outs
  • A quick look at the defensive programming cheatsheet

Target audience

Developers, Programmers, Architects with experience in any scripting/programming languages.

Top reviews of our trainings

  • Interaction with the trainer positively influenced my learning curve. Planning on having another session in 6 months to track my progress

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  • The training was very engaging and gave a big-picture understanding of AI. For me, it further stressed the importance of minimizing uncertainties and how AI can help here.

    Alex van Rooijen / Product Owner - De Nederlandsche Bank AI for Product Owners & Product Managers
  • Knowledgeable trainer who's able to clarify difficult topics

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Training dates

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Need help?

Please contact us via email or call us by the number stated below. We are more than happy to help you.

+31 (0)15 - 241 19 00
academy@devon.nl

What’s next for me?

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(DOFD)® DevOps Foundation certificate

FAQ

What if I book a date, but then have to reschedule?

After your registration has been confirmed, you are still able to change the date up to 20 days before the first day of the training. You are able to do this once. Please send your request to academy@devon.nl or call +31(0)15-24 11 900 for further assistance.

What if not enough people have signed up for the course?

Two weeks before each training, we will check if we have enough participants for the training course to be valuable and continue. If this is not the case, we will inform you by e-mail, with options for a new date and location. After this notification, you will have the right to cancel or change your registration within 5 working days.

How can I pay?

On the website you can choose to pay via iDeal, creditcard or by invoice with a payment period of 30 days.

Which languages do you offer your courses in?

Most of our courses are available in both English and Dutch. We have a selection of training courses which are only available in English, which will be on that training page. Our rule of thumb for courses in the Netherlands is – the course is in English unless everybody speaks Dutch, then the course is in Dutch. If you want to be sure you are in a Dutch course, please get in touch with academy@devon.nl in case the information on a specific date is not available on the course page.

What do the costs include?

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What language is the course material in?

All course material for the open registrations is in English.

When will I receive my exam code?

If you are doing the PSD (Scrum.org) or one of the certified DevOps Institute trainings, you will receive your exam code on the final day of the training.

What is your payment term?

We have a payment term of up to 30 days

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