Owasp Essential Training
Exploit and fix each Top 10 risk in a lab, test applications with ZAP and apply OWASP Cheat Sheets to secure your code. Learn Owasp through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Owasp levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Owasp Essential Training.
Understand where Owasp fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Owasp is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Owasp program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Essential.
Private Owasp training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Owasp training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Owasp usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Essential | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Essential | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 2 Days | Corporate | Owasp Essential Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Owasp training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Recognise web application risks
Identify, exploit in a lab and explain the OWASP Top 10 and API Top 10 risks.
Build secure software
Apply ASVS, Cheat Sheets and OWASP tools to design, code and test secure applications.
Run application security
Use SAMM to measure and improve application security across an organisation.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Owasp responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Owasp matters
- Owasp helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Owasp becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Owasp effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Owasp concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Owasp in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Owasp for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Owasp usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Owasp.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Essential. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: OWASP projects, Top 10 risks and secure basicsDay 1
- OWASP overview: the open community, flagship projects and how to use them in a security programme
- Web application basics: HTTP requests and responses, cookies, sessions, headers and same-origin policy
- OWASP Top 10 introduction: how the list is built and the 2021 and 2025 editions compared
- Broken access control: IDOR, missing function-level checks and path traversal
- Injection: SQL injection, command injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) basics
- Cryptographic failures: plaintext data, weak algorithms and missing TLS
- Security misconfiguration: default credentials, verbose errors and missing security headers
- Software supply chain failures: vulnerable and unmaintained components and untrusted packages
- Authentication failures: weak passwords, credential stuffing and session fixation
- Practice lab setup: OWASP Juice Shop and WebGoat running locally in Docker
- Tooling intro: browser developer tools and ZAP as an intercepting proxy
Essential Level = Foundation + Top 10 in depth, testing and secure codingDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Insecure design: threat modelling basics with STRIDE and OWASP Threat Dragon
- Software and data integrity failures: insecure deserialization, unsigned updates and CI/CD integrity
- Logging and alerting failures: what to log, log injection and detecting attacks
- Server-side request forgery and exceptional conditions: SSRF, unsafe error handling and fail-open logic
- Fixing injection: parameterised queries, ORM pitfalls, output encoding and Content Security Policy
- Fixing access control: deny by default, server-side authorization and object ownership checks
- Authentication done right: MFA, password storage with Argon2 or bcrypt and session management
- OWASP Cheat Sheet Series: applying cheat sheets for authentication, XSS prevention and secrets
- ZAP in practice: spidering, passive and active scans, authenticated scanning and reports
- Dependency checks: OWASP Dependency-Check and CycloneDX SBOMs for component risk
- OWASP Proactive Controls: the developer-focused top controls mapped to code
- Team workflow: security user stories, code review checklists and triaging scan findings
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Owasp levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Find your first Top 10 flaws
Run OWASP Juice Shop locally and use the browser and ZAP to find and explain an access control flaw, an injection and a misconfiguration.
Exploit and fix Top 10 issues
Exploit SQL injection, XSS and broken access control in WebGoat, then fix each in code and confirm the fix with a ZAP scan.
Owasp is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Owasp with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Owasp certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Owasp level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Owasp Essential Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Owasp path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Owasp Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Owasp level fits your team.
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Training snapshots and certificate preview.
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Tool-focused training
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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Next weekday batch starts on the 1st; weekend batch on the first Saturday. Batches are capped at 10 learners. Send your details and DevOpsSchool will share the syllabus and batch options.