A tailored course, built for your situation
Mastering OWASP for Programmer Analysts in Enterprise Security Contexts
Build unshakable command of web application security standards from the ground up
Who this is for
Mid-level programmer analyst in a regulated enterprise tech environment, working at the intersection of software development and compliance-aligned security controls
Who this is not for
Entry-level developers, executive leadership, or consultants outside the application security implementation track
What you walk away with
- Confidently implement OWASP ASVS controls in code reviews and design phases
- Produce audit-ready documentation for security findings and mitigation steps
- Anticipate and resolve common OWASP Top 10 violations before deployment
- Apply standardized secure coding benchmarks across frameworks and languages
- Translate security findings into developer-actionable feedback loops
The 12 modules (with all 144 chapters)
- Mapping OWASP projects to real-world security incidents
- Differentiating between OWASP ASVS, Top 10, and SAMM
- How OWASP aligns with NIST and ISO 27001 frameworks
- Security maturity models and developer responsibility layers
- Integrating OWASP into software development life cycles
- Common misperceptions about OWASP compliance scope
- Organizational ownership of OWASP implementation
- Version control and update cycles for OWASP standards
- Documenting OWASP alignment in technical artifacts
- Benchmarking team readiness against OWASP baselines
- Tools that support OWASP integration in CI/CD pipelines
- Case study: Applying OWASP principles in cloud-native apps
- Understanding execution flow in injection attacks
- Identifying injection points in web application entry layers
- SQL injection patterns in Oracle-based applications
- Parameterized queries versus string concatenation risks
- Input validation strategies by language type
- Error message leakage and information disclosure
- Using stored procedures securely in enterprise contexts
- Testing for second-order injection scenarios
- Automated scanning limitations for injection detection
- Secure coding rules for database interactions
- Patch management for known injection exploits
- Documenting injection risk treatment decisions
- Password storage best practices using hashing algorithms
- Session identifier generation and expiration policies
- Multi-factor authentication integration patterns
- Credential stuffing attack mitigation techniques
- Brute-force protection mechanisms and rate limiting
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect implementation safety
- Session fixation and cross-site request forgery links
- Logout functionality and session invalidation
- User identity propagation across microservices
- Security headers for authentication context
- Testing authentication flows under load
- Documenting authentication design decisions
- Classifying data sensitivity levels in enterprise apps
- Encryption standards for storage and transmission
- Key management best practices in distributed systems
- Tokenization versus encryption tradeoffs
- Secure handling of PII and financial data
- TLS configuration and certificate validation
- Data masking in development and test environments
- Logging policies for sensitive inputs
- Memory dump protection for secrets
- API response filtering for protected fields
- Compliance requirements for data handling
- Audit trails for access to sensitive datasets
- Understanding XML parsing workflows in modern apps
- DTD processing and external entity inclusion risks
- Disabling dangerous parser features by default
- Secure alternatives to DTD-based validation
- File upload handling with XML content
- Server-side request forgery via XXE
- Blind XXE detection and exploitation patterns
- Mitigation through input sanitization layers
- Parser configuration hardening in Java and .NET
- Testing for XXE in API endpoints
- Monitoring for XXE-related log patterns
- Documenting XXE risk treatment strategies
- Role-based access control modeling
- Vertical and horizontal privilege separation
- Function-level authorization checks
- Direct object reference vulnerabilities
- Mass assignment and parameter tampering
- API endpoint exposure risks
- Secure session attribute handling
- Access control decay over time
- Testing for access bypass scenarios
- Logging and alerting for access anomalies
- Periodic access review automation
- Documenting access control assumptions
- Default configuration risks in enterprise software
- Secure baseline development for deployment images
- Environment variable handling for secrets
- Unnecessary services and ports exposure
- Error handling and debugging exposure
- Secure header implementation in HTTP responses
- Automated scanning for configuration drift
- Container image security hardening
- Cloud platform configuration benchmarks
- Version control for configuration files
- Patch management integration with security checks
- Documenting approved configuration exceptions
- Understanding reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS
- Input validation strategies for user-controlled content
- Output encoding by context type
- Content Security Policy implementation
- JavaScript framework sanitization capabilities
- Template engine XSS protection features
- Testing for blind XSS scenarios
- Browser developer tools for XSS inspection
- Third-party library vulnerability management
- Mitigating XSS in single-page applications
- Monitoring for script injection attempts
- Documenting XSS mitigation design choices
- Understanding serialization formats and risks
- Java deserialization attack vectors
- Python pickle module dangers
- DotNet binary formatter vulnerabilities
- Digital signatures for serialized objects
- Input validation for deserialized structures
- Sandboxing deserialization operations
- Monitoring for abnormal deserialization patterns
- Alternative data exchange formats
- Secure session state management
- Testing for deserialization exploits
- Documenting serialization design decisions
- Software bill of materials generation
- Vulnerability databases and feed integration
- Automated scanning in CI/CD pipelines
- Criticality scoring for open-source components
- Patch prioritization frameworks
- License compliance and security overlap
- Minimizing attack surface with unused dependencies
- Vendor-provided component security assessments
- Monitoring for new vulnerability disclosures
- Establishing acceptable risk thresholds
- Deprecation planning for legacy libraries
- Documenting component selection rationale
- Event types requiring logging and retention
- Log format standardization for analysis
- Secure log storage and access controls
- Detecting suspicious authentication patterns
- Monitoring for brute force and enumeration
- Intrusion detection through behavioral baselines
- Incident response playbook integration
- Centralized log aggregation solutions
- Retention policies and compliance alignment
- False positive reduction techniques
- Testing detection coverage
- Documenting monitoring scope decisions
- Integrating OWASP checks into code reviews
- Developer training programs for OWASP awareness
- Security champions program structure
- Automated testing integration pipelines
- Vulnerability disclosure process design
- Risk acceptance criteria documentation
- Third-party audit preparation workflows
- Continuous improvement of security practices
- Measuring OWASP implementation effectiveness
- Cross-team communication on security findings
- Maintaining OWASP alignment over time
- Building organizational memory of security decisions
How this maps to your situation
- Development lifecycle integration
- Compliance audit preparation
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Enterprise security policy adherence
Before vs. after
What's included with your purchase
- 12 modules with 12 chapters each (144 chapters)
- Downloadable templates and worked examples for every module
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Delivery and format
- Course and learning environment access provisioned within 24 hours of purchase
- Hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access
Format: Text-based modules and chapters in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every chapter, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.
Time investment: Approximately 90 minutes per week for 8 weeks, designed to fit around professional commitments.
How this compares to the alternatives
Unlike generic security certifications or surface-level OWASP summaries, this course delivers structured, role-specific mastery with implementation-grade detail tailored to enterprise programmer analysts.
Frequently asked
Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.