SDT 321 – Testing for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Course Overview

Uncontrolled Resource consumption occurs when software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of limited resources such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This course introduces ways to identify and mitigate this security weakness, referenced as CWE-400 by the CWE Top 25.

Topics include:

• Identifying Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
• Recognizing the impact of this vulnerability
• Application of secure coding best practices
• Testing to detect this vulnerability