Certified Security Champion CSC

The Certified Security Champion course provides engineers with practical hands-on knowledge to help them in building more secure web applications. Students will learn to develop trustworthy web applications while avoiding common security pitfalls, using best practices and industry frameworks. 

Cybersecurity is a wide-ranging topic that covers many areas including but not limited to cryptography, penetration testing, security testing in the software development life cycle, wireless security, denial of service attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities. This course focuses on secure application development with an emphasis on web-related security issues. A review of the OWASP Top 10 list is included.

In this intensive course, you’ll learn how to discover and fix vulnerabilities in application code. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to a wide variety of security topics, including SQL Injection, Broken Authentication and Session Management, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), XML External Entity Attacks (XXE), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Open Redirects and many more. The course also focuses on various areas of infrastructure security, risk management, threat modelling, and agile collaboration techniques.

By the end of this course, you will develop practical security knowledge, that you can immediately begin applying at work. 

Certified Security Champions can cut the cost of security vulnerability remediation by half and reduce time spent remediating vulnerabilities by 75%. By taking this course, learners are guaranteed to increase their organization’s security effectiveness.

The Certified Security Champions course is a must-take for everyone involved in web development. From Front-end developers to security auditors, this course will give you the knowledge and hands-on material you need to build more secure Web Applications. Dev and Sec folks are working more closely together than ever before, and this course will put everyone on the same page.

After the training, you will be able to:

Prerequisites

  1. Foundational knowledge of software development life cycle
  2. Understanding of developing or testing web applications

Learning Objectives

  1. Building solid foundations that are required to understand the application security landscape
  2. Building foundational knowledge required to work with infrastructure security
  3. Understanding the wide range of skills and abilities that are required to be a security champion
  4. Embedding security while creating, running, and maintaining modern applications
  5. Gaining abilities to apply practical application security skills in a real-world environment 
  6. Gaining skills and knowledge to liaise with security and other departments to make everyone responsible for the security
  7. Gaining analytical abilities to observe and advise various security controls, and solutions to secure DevOps
  8. Understanding the fundamentals of assessing and managing risks

Target Audience

This course is aimed at anyone who is looking to embed security as part of agile/cloud/DevOps environments:

  1. Security Professionals
  2. Penetration Testers
  3. Red Teamers
  4. IT managers
  5. Developers
  6. DevOps Engineers
  7. Security Champions

Proficiency Needed
Beginner/Intermediate

Training Format
Self-Paced/On-demand

What will be provided

The students will be provided with

Lifetime Access to:

  1. Course Manual
  2. Course Videos and Checklists
  3. Two thirty minutes sessions with instructors
  4. Access to a dedicated slack channel
  5. 30+ Guided Exercises

Lab and Exam:

  1. 30 days Online Lab Access
  2. One exam attempt for Certified DevSecOps Professional Certification

Syllabus

You can find the course syllabus below.

Please expand the collapsible sections by clicking the module.

Module 0: Introduction to the course
  1. Course Introduction (About the course, syllabus, and how to approach it) 
  2. About Certification and how to approach it
  3. Lab Environment
  4. Course support (Slack)
  5. Security Champion 101
  6. Security Champion’s History and Beyond
Module 0: Introduction to the course
  1. Course Introduction (About the course, syllabus, and how to approach it) 
  2. About Certification and how to approach it
  3. Lab Environment
  4. Course support (Slack)
  5. Security Champion 101
  6. Security Champion’s History and Beyond
Module 0: Introduction to the course
  1. Course Introduction (About the course, syllabus, and how to approach it) 
  2. About Certification and how to approach it
  3. Lab Environment
  4. Course support (Slack)
  5. Security Champion 101
  6. Security Champion’s History and Beyond
Module 0: Introduction to the course
  1. Course Introduction (About the course, syllabus, and how to approach it) 
  2. About Certification and how to approach it
  3. Lab Environment
  4. Course support (Slack)
  5. Security Champion 101
  6. Security Champion’s History and Beyond
Module 0: Introduction to the course
  1. Course Introduction (About the course, syllabus, and how to approach it) 
  2. About Certification and how to approach it
  3. Lab Environment
  4. Course support (Slack)
  5. Security Champion 101
  6. Security Champion’s History and Beyond
Module 0: Introduction to the course
  1. Course Introduction (About the course, syllabus, and how to approach it) 
  2. About Certification and how to approach it
  3. Lab Environment
  4. Course support (Slack)
  5. Security Champion 101
  6. Security Champion’s History and Beyond

Practical DevSecOps Certification Process

  1. After completing the course, you can schedule the CSC exam on your preferred date.
  2. Process of achieving Practical DevSecOps CSC Certification can be found here.

Pricing

US$799

Training Format:
Self-paced/On-demand

The price is inclusive of all taxes

Practical DevSecOps Certification Process

  1. After completing the course, you can schedule the CSC exam on your preferred date.
  2. Process of achieving Practical DevSecOps CSC Certification can be found here.

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