Hacking 101

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Learn first-hand the fundamentals of hacking - how to find Web application vulnerabilities through a combination of manual and automated approaches, and what to do when a vulnerability has been identified.

Audience

IT security professionals, quality assurance (Q&A), and application developers.

Duration

Half day

Details

Few can argue that Web applications present significant threat of attacks for organizations. For IT security professionals, they also present a significant challenge. To stay ahead of hackers and protect sensitive data, security teams need to understand how vulnerabilities in applications are first exposed and then exploited by cyber-criminals for profit.

In this half-day briefing you will learn:

• The importance of Web application security - today's most significant online threat.
• The two most common Web application attacks: Cross-site scripting & SQL injection. Find out how they occur and what can be done to prevent them.
• Manual versus automated approaches for scanning and identifying Web application vulnerabilities.
• How AppScan 7.6, an automated vulnerability scanner, can help you automate more of what you are doing manually today.
• Best practices for fixing vulnerabilities once they have been identified.

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Resources

• Participate in the discussion forum.
  
  
• developerWorks demos: Watch and learn.
  
  
• Check out developerWorks blogs and get involved in the developerWorks community.
  
  
• Download IBM product evaluation versions and get your hands on application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.

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