Application & Web Security Career Program
Learn to identify, validate and prevent security weaknesses in modern websites, APIs and applications.
What you'll learn
Understand secure web architecture, HTTP, authentication and authorization.
Identify and test major web-application security risks.
Apply the OWASP Top 10:2025 to practical application-security scenarios.
Test APIs, sessions, access controls, input handling and security configuration.
Understand secure coding and application-security review principles.
Learn vulnerability reporting, remediation verification and DevSecOps fundamentals.
Complete a practical web/API security assessment.
Career opportunities
This course includes
Live technical classes
Deliberately vulnerable applications
Web and API labs
Secure-coding exercises
Security review checklists
Capstone assessment
Certificate
Who it's for
- Web developers
- Software engineering students
- QA and testing professionals
- Cybersecurity beginners
- Aspiring application-security analysts
Curriculum
12 modules · Live classes · Hands-on practice · Practical assignments
- Web architecture
- HTTP requests and responses
- Cookies and sessions
- Browser and server security concepts
Practical / Lab: Trace a web request and identify its security-sensitive components.
- Authentication vs authorization
- Passwords and MFA
- Session management
- Account recovery risks
Practical / Lab: Review a deliberately insecure login flow.
- Object-level authorization
- Role-based access
- Privilege boundaries
- Horizontal and vertical access issues
Practical / Lab: Test access-control scenarios in a lab.
- Trust boundaries
- Input validation
- SQL injection concepts
- Command and other injection risks
Practical / Lab: Identify and safely validate injection behavior in a lab.
- Default settings
- Exposed services
- Debug information
- Headers and configuration controls
Practical / Lab: Perform a configuration-security review.
- Encryption concepts
- Hashing vs encryption
- Key handling
- Sensitive-data exposure
Practical / Lab: Identify insecure handling of sensitive information.
- REST fundamentals
- Authentication and authorization
- Rate limiting
- Input validation
- API inventory
Practical / Lab: Assess an intentionally insecure API.
- Broken access control
- Security misconfiguration
- Software supply-chain failures
- Cryptographic failures
- Injection
- Insecure design
- Authentication failures
- Integrity failures
- Logging and alerting failures
- Exceptional-condition handling
Practical / Lab: Map vulnerabilities to OWASP categories.
- Threat modeling basics
- Secure coding practices
- Code-review mindset
- Dependency and supply-chain risks
Practical / Lab: Review sample code and identify security weaknesses.
- SAST, DAST and dependency scanning concepts
- Test cases
- False positives
- CI/CD security checks
Practical / Lab: Create a basic application-security testing checklist.
- Security requirements
- Design review
- Testing gates
- Remediation tracking
Practical / Lab: Add security controls to a sample development lifecycle.
- Scope
- Web/API assessment
- Evidence
- Risk ranking
- Remediation verification
Practical / Lab: Assess a deliberately vulnerable application and deliver a professional security report.
Requirements
- Basic programming or web knowledge is helpful but not mandatory.
- A laptop and stable internet connection are required.
- All testing is performed only on authorized lab applications.
- Students should be comfortable following technical instructions and practicing independently.
Program description
Application security is increasingly important because modern organizations depend on web applications, APIs and software supply chains. The program combines attacker thinking with defender thinking: learners identify weaknesses, understand impact and learn how developers and security teams can prevent recurrence.
The course uses the OWASP Top 10:2025 as a core reference for application-security awareness while extending into APIs, secure development, testing and DevSecOps.
Capstone / final project
Final project: perform an authorized security assessment of a deliberately vulnerable web/API application, map findings to relevant categories, demonstrate impact safely and provide remediation and retest recommendations.
Recommended tools & platforms
Batches
New batches forming · limited seats
Mode
Live instructor-led training
Duration
12 weeks
24/7 support