Cybersecurity for Developers: From Basics to Best Practices

This course is designed for developers, IT professionals, or anyone just starting their tech journey who wants to build a strong foundation in cybersecurity. Whether you're a software developer or an IT specialist looking to enhance your security knowledge, this course will provide you with hands-on, practical examples beyond theory, helping you apply cybersecurity principles directly to real-world scenarios.

What You Will Learn:

Through this engaging course, you'll gain expertise in critical aspects of web application security, ensuring that you can build secure applications from the ground up. Here are the key areas covered:

• Threat Modeling: Learn how to identify potential application threats by analyzing their design and environment. This helps you understand where vulnerabilities might exist.
• Web Application Security: Understand common vulnerabilities in web applications and how to mitigate them, ensuring your web apps are protected against attacks.
• Secure Coding Best Practices: Learn to write clean, secure code and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to vulnerabilities.
• Incident Response: Learn how to react when a security breach occurs, including identifying the source and taking necessary actions to contain and resolve it.
• API Security: Learn the essentials of securing your APIs, identifying vulnerabilities, and applying best practices to ensure secure data transfer between applications.

By the End of This Course:

By the end of this course, you will not only understand the foundations of cybersecurity, but you’ll also be able to apply best practices across all areas of development to ensure the security of your applications.

Why Choose This Course?

• Practical and Hands-On: Gain real-world experience with hands-on labs and scenarios to reinforce what you learn.
• Up-to-date Content: Stay ahead with the latest trends and tools in cybersecurity, ensuring your skills are always current.
• Expert Trainers: Learn from industry experts with years of experience, providing guidance and insights that are applicable in today’s cybersecurity landscape.
• Course Completion Certificate: Receive a certificate upon completing the course, demonstrating your proficiency in key cybersecurity concepts.

Course Topics & Learning Outcomes:

• Secure Coding Practices: Master techniques to write secure code and prevent vulnerabilities.
• Tools and Techniques for API Security Assessment: Understand how to assess and secure APIs using industry-
• standard tools and techniques.
• Hands-on Experience with Real-World API Security Scenarios: Put theory into practice with hands-on exercises focusing on securing real-world API vulnerabilities.
• OWASP Vulnerabilities: Learn about common security vulnerabilities and how to address them, using tools and frameworks in your development process.
• Security Tools and Frameworks Used in the Industry: Learn to use the tools and frameworks widely used in the industry for securing applications and APIs.
• API Security Strategy: Develop a strategy for ensuring the security of your APIs and applications throughout their lifecycle.
• Understand the OWASP API Top 10 Vulnerabilities: You will learn to identify and mitigate the OWASP API Top 10 vulnerabilities, which include:

1. API1:2019 – Broken Object Level Authorization
2. API2:2019 – Broken User Authentication
3. API3:2019 – Excessive Data Exposure
4. API4:2019 – Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting
5. API5:2019 – Broken Function Level Authorization
6. API6:2019 – Mass Assignment
7. API7:2019 – Security Misconfiguration
8. API8:2019 – Injection
9. API9:2019 – Improper Assets Management
10. API10:2019 – Insufficient Logging & Monitoring

• Strategies for Continuous Security Monitoring and Improvement: Learn how to continually monitor your applications for vulnerabilities and apply improvements as necessary to maintain security.

Tools and Frameworks:

You’ll also gain practical knowledge of various tools and frameworks used for securing APIs and applications, including:

• API Security Tools: Tools designed explicitly for API security assessments, such as OWASP ZAP or Postman.
• Security Frameworks: Learn about widely used frameworks like OAuth, OpenID Connect, and JWT to secure your APIs.
• API Security Techniques: Understand the techniques for securing APIs, including encryption, authentication, and authorization.
• Industry-Standard Security Tools: Get familiar with popular tools like Burp Suite, Wireshark, and others used for security assessments in development.

This Cybersecurity for Developers course ensures you are equipped to build secure applications, whether working with APIs, web applications, or handling sensitive data. You will develop the skills to defend your applications against the latest threats, understand API security vulnerabilities, and apply secure coding best practices. By the end of the course, you will be confident in your ability to integrate cybersecurity into your development process, enhancing the security of your applications and systems.