Application Security in Pune

About this course

This intermediate-to-advanced programme gives software and security professionals a rigorous, structured grounding in application security through live, instructor-led sessions reinforced by hands-on labs. Learners work directly with industry tools, probe intentionally vulnerable applications, and integrate security practices into real development workflows. The curriculum culminates in a guided capstone project in which participants assess a vulnerable application end-to-end, apply SAST and DAST tooling, and produce a professional remediation report — consolidating every skill built throughout the programme.

What is Application Security?

Application security is the discipline of designing, building, testing, and maintaining software so that it resists attack, protects sensitive data, and behaves reliably under adversarial conditions. It spans the entire software development lifecycle — from early threat modelling and security-by-design decisions, through secure coding and rigorous testing, to deployment hardening and ongoing governance. In production environments, application security is what separates software that holds up under real-world attack from software that becomes a breach headline. It covers vulnerability categories such as the OWASP Top Ten, secure API design, container hardening with Docker, dependency risk management with Snyk, and the automation of security scanning inside CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, and Semgrep — making it indispensable to any organisation that ships software.

Why learn Application Security now

Organisations are shipping code faster than ever, and the attack surface of web and mobile applications has grown correspondingly. Security is no longer something bolted on after release — engineering teams are expected to embed it from the first design decision to the final deployment. Professionals who can conduct threat modelling, wield tools like Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, and Bandit fluently, wire SAST and DAST scans into live CI/CD pipelines, and communicate findings through clear remediation reports are in acute short supply. The convergence of DevOps culture and security obligation has created a generation of roles that demand both development depth and security fluency, and those who can bridge that gap command significant professional leverage now and into the foreseeable future.

Who this course is for

• Software Developers — Developers seeking to embed secure coding, input validation, and OWASP-aware practices directly into their daily engineering work.
• Security Analysts — Analysts wanting hands-on testing experience with Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, and DVWA beyond theoretical vulnerability knowledge.
• DevOps Engineers — DevOps practitioners ready to evolve into DevSecOps roles by wiring Snyk, SonarQube, and Semgrep scans into Jenkins pipelines.
• Penetration Testers — Testers focused on web applications who want structured OWASP Top Ten coverage alongside exploitation and remediation practice.
• Security Consultants — Consultants who need to assess client application security posture, produce findings, and recommend governance and remediation strategies.
• Software Engineering Leads — Technical leads responsible for secure development lifecycle adoption, threat modelling processes, and team-wide security-by-design culture.

What you’ll be able to build

By the end you will have built — not just studied — the core systems of the field:

• Threat Model for a Web Application — A structured threat model that maps attack surfaces, identifies risk scenarios, and applies security-by-design and minimal-privilege principles to a realistic application.
• Secure Code Review with SAST Tooling — A static analysis assessment of application source code using SonarQube, Semgrep, and Bandit, with documented findings and recommended secure fixes.
• Dynamic Security Assessment with Burp Suite and OWASP ZAP — A live DAST assessment against DVWA and WebGoat, identifying injection flaws, XSS, broken access control, and other OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities.
• Software Composition Analysis Report — A dependency risk report produced using Snyk, identifying vulnerable third-party components and outlining a practical remediation and upgrade strategy.
• Security-Gated CI/CD Pipeline — A working Jenkins pipeline wired with automated SAST, DAST, and SCA scans using Git integration, enforcing security gates before code progresses.
• API Security Test Suite — A Postman-based API security assessment covering authentication weaknesses, improper authorisation, and insecure data exposure across application endpoints.
• Capstone Vulnerability and Remediation Report — A professional end-to-end report documenting OWASP Top Ten findings, exploitation evidence, and prioritised remediation guidance produced during the guided capstone project.

Career paths & salary

Completing this programme opens doors across a growing spectrum of security-focused roles. Application Security Engineers embed within product teams to own the security of software from design to deployment. DevSecOps Engineers build and maintain the automated security tooling inside CI/CD pipelines that organisations depend on for safe, continuous delivery. Secure Software Developers bring security fluency to engineering teams that need to ship code that withstands real-world attack. Penetration Testers specialising in web applications are in sustained demand as organisations seek independent validation of their defences. Security Analysts and Security Consultants who can speak the language of both development and risk assessment are valued for their ability to bridge technical findings and business decisions. Across all of these roles, demand is being driven by regulatory pressure, increasing breach frequency, and the widespread adoption of DevOps practices that require security to be continuous rather than periodic. Professionals who emerge from this programme with practical tool fluency and assessment experience are well positioned to step into senior, specialist, and advisory roles.