Application Security

About Application Security

Application security is the process of creating, integrating, and testing security measures inside of programs to thwart risks like unauthorized access and modification.

All tasks that help development teams adopt a safe software development life cycle fall under this category. Its ultimate purpose is to enhance security procedures and, via that, to identify, address, and ideally avoid security flaws in applications.

Application security helps companies comply to privacy and protection standards and norms. Application Security has gained immense popularity across the globe resulting in huge demand for certified professionals.

Why is Application Security important?

Application security advantages:

• minimizes risk from internal and external sources.
• keeps companies out of the news, protecting the reputation of the brand.
• secures consumer data and fosters client trust.
• prevents the disclosure of important information.
• increases the confidence of important investors and lenders.
• helps in data security compliance

Application Security certified professionals, executives and managers are in high demand in companies across the globe.

Who should take the Application Security Exam?

• IT security professionals engineers and managers
  
• Software developers who are interested in developing secure software.
• Security practitioners
• Software and security engineering experts
• Cyber security professionals

Knowledge and Skills required for the Application Security

Candidates gain quick success in career of application security if they have skills of critical thinking and good communication skills.

Application Security Practice Exam Objectives

Application Security exam focuses on assessing your skills and knowledge in concepts and application of Application Security

Application Security Practice Exam Pre-requisite

There are no prerequisites for the Application Security exam. Candidates who are well versed  in Application Security can easily clear the exam.

Application Security Certification Course Outline

1. Overview of application security
2. Concept of OWASP
3. Tools and defenses
4. Session handling
5. Threat modeling and risk rating
6. Encryption
7. Hashing
   
8. Process and frameworks
9. Scanning and testing: Security measures

Exam Format and Information

Certification name – Certificate in Application Security
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199