Defensive Programming in Java E-Learning

Order this amazing, award-winning Defensive Programming in Java E-Learning course online, 1 year 24/7 access to extensive interactive videos, speeches, hands-on tasks and progress monitoring. After the course you will receive a certificate of attendance. Defensive programming is an approach to programming that attempts to ensure that software still functions under adverse or unforeseen circumstances. This learning path covers how to code defensively in Java. It covers how to use assertions and annotations, how to implement classes and methods and program flow securely, as well as how to avoid denial of service attacks and injection attacks. Finally, it also covers how to handle data securely, manage concurrency effectively, and use access control to provide safe and effective applications.

Course content

Introduction to Defensive Programming

Course: 8 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Defensive Coding in Java

Using Assertions and Annotations

Course: 16 Minutes

• Assertions
• Annotations

Methods

Course: 15 Minutes

• Defensible Methods
• Working with Untrusted Parameters
• Checking Return Values

Types and Operations

Course: 45 Minutes

• Conversions and Promotions
• Issues with Floating Point Values
• Integer Overflow Vulnerability
• Issues with Operations
• Strings and Variable-Width Encodings
• Strings and Noncharacter Data
• Strings and Locale-dependent Data
• The Value of Null

Classes and Objects

Course: 34 Minutes

• Working with Classes
• Working with Constructors
• Issues with Mutability
• Serialization and Deserialization
• Object and Reference Equality

Program Flow Control and Collections

Course: 34 Minutes

• Conditional Expressions
• Assignments and Conditional Expressions
• Bitwise and Logical Operators
• Working with Enhanced for Loop
• Working with Collections

Errors, Resources, and Terminations

Course: 20 Minutes

• Utilizing Exceptions Correctly
• Denial-of-Service Attacks
• Releasing Resources
• Terminating Programs

Practice: Creating Defensible Code

Course: 8 Minutes

• Exercise: Code Defensively in Java

Working with Data

Course: 42 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Logging Data
• Unsanitized Data and Format Strings
• Working with ZIP Files
• Validating Input
• Using Regular Expressions

Defending against Attacks

Course: 1 Hour, 23 Minutes

• SQL Injection Attacks
• Preventing Code Injections
• Setting Up an LDAP Server
• Preventing LDAP Injection
• Preventing XPath Injections
• Preventing XML Injections
• XML Entity Expansion Attacks
• Defending against Path Traversal Attacks

Concurrency

Course: 31 Minutes

• Race Conditions in Concurrent Programming
• Guaranteeing Safe Publication
• Working with Synchronization Semantics
• Using Thread-Safety-Related Annotations

Practice: Defending Against Attacks

Course: 9 Minutes

• Exercise: Defending Against Attacks

Secure Communications and Access Control

Course: 56 Minutes

• Course Introduction
• Secure Network Communications
• Permissions and Callback Methods
• Working with doPrivileged
• Containers
• Creating a Custom Security Policy File
• Working with Contexts
• Callers and Access Considerations

Protecting Data

Course: 34 Minutes

• Handling Sensitive Data
• Secure Password Storage
• Coding a User Authentication Database
• Coding and Testing Secure User Authentication

Practice: Securing a Java Application

Course: 9 Minutes

• Exercise: Securing Access