Think like a hacker – training in real world systems security

Core Defence runs face-to-face training courses throughout the year and computer based training via WebEx is available for most subjects on request.

Courses currently on offer include:

• Secure coding training:  OWASP Top 10
  Core Defence's Secure Coding Training OWASP Top 10 2010 trains your web developers to approach development from a security perspective while keeping all other project requirements intact. Our training ensures that developers understand each of the OWASP Top 10 2010 vulnerabilities.
• Secure Coding Training: Secure Development PCI course
  Participants in this course learn how to approach development from a security perspective using the latest methods and how to gear their coding towards PCI compliance.  The training covers the main coding languages: ASP.NET, Java and PHP.
• Secure Coding Training: Language specific
  This course teaches your developers how to avoid security pitfalls in the code language of their choice. This course enables developers to explore the secure coding options specific to their preferred language and ensures that they keep security in mind at every stage of the development process.
• SDLC Boot camp
  In this popular boot camp student learn the importance of the software development life cycle (SDLC). The course covers the process of implementing a SDLC, how to identify and track risk and how to add controls to the development process such as risk management templates and defect trackers.
• Web application penetration testing training
  This course educates students on a wide range of web application hacking concepts and includes practical lab experience on exploiting vulnerabilities to enforce student understanding and learning of countermeasures necessary to ensure your web applications, systems and data remain safe.
• Infrastructure penetration testing training: OPST certification
  The OPST is a certification of applied knowledge designed to improve the work done as a professional security tester using the Open Source Security Testing Manual's (OSSTM) rules of engagement. This is an important certification for those who want or need to prove they are competent at network auditing, ethical hacking, web application testing, intranet application testing and penetration testing.
• Web application Security Architecture Training
  Core Defence's Web Application Security Architecture Training teaches you how to design web application architecture including input validation, authentication, configuration, data storage, session management, exception handing and logging as well as how to deploy infrastructure such as host and network layouts and security zones.
• Security Awareness training
  Core Defence's Security Awareness Training teaches your employees the fundamentals of security and how to detect if an attack is occurring. The concepts that the students learn will range from understanding what a web browser SSL certificate error means, through to the different types of social engineering attacks including Phishing emails, tail-gating, phone-based and in-person attacks. This training increases your organisation's security awareness in order to prevent the weakest layer of your security being exploited – Your Employees.