Opleiding: Desktop Application Security in Python (DASEC-PY)

Your application written in Python works as intended, so you are done, right? But did you consider feeding in incorrect values? 16Gbs of data? A null? An apostrophe? Negative numbers, or specifical...

- Cyber security basics
- Input validation
- Security features
- Using vulnerable components
- Cryptography for developers
- Common software security weaknesses
- Wrap up

- Getting familiar with essential cyber security concepts
- Identify vulnerabilities and their consequences
- Learn the security best practices in Python
- Input validation approaches and principles
- Managing vulnerabilities in third party components
- Understanding how cryptography can support appplication security
- Learning how to use cryptographic APIs correctly in Python

Python developers working on desktop applications

DAY 1

Cyber security basics



- What is security?
- Threat and risk
- Cyber security threat types
- Consequences of insecure software

- Constraints and the market
- The dark side
Input validation



- Input validation principles

- Blacklists and whitelists
- Data validation techniques
- Lab – Input validation
- What to validate – the attack surface
- Where to validate – defense in depth
- How to validate – validation vs transformations
- Output sanitization
- Encoding challenges
- Lab –...