COD 266 – Secure Ruby Scripting

Course Overview

In this secure coding course, you will learn important concepts for secure Ruby scripting, techniques for preventing/mitigating different vulnerabilities including different types of injection, and protecting sensitive data in transit.

Topics covered:

• Validating command-line parameters
• Using quotation marks correctly
• Using unmask to set default file permissions
• Protecting files and canonicalizing paths
• Defending against Regular Expression Denial of Service (DoS) attacks