• Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

This course introduces secure ASP.NET coding principles for AJAX applications. It provides an overview of best practices to mitigate common vulnerabilities and protect against common attack vectors. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to identify the threats to AJAX applications from cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, and injection attacks, and ways to implement countermeasures against these attacks by protecting client resources, validating input, protecting web services requests, preventing request forgeries, and securing data access.

Learning Objectives

On successful completion of this course, learners should have the knowledge and skills to:

  • Describe the architectural differences between regular web applications and Ajax-enabled applications
  • Describe the special security challenges posed by Ajax-enabled applications
  • Identify ways in which attackers exploit common weaknesses in Ajax-enabled applications

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Software Development

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.