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SlaveCheck

Learn to handle cybersecurity incidents and build your expertise on a Web App Vulnerability Assessment Project with SlaveCheck.

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  • Project starts4 June 2024
  • PrerequisitesIT & Networking Fundamentals
  • Project Duration6 weeks
  • Course Price This project is part of the Career Launcher Cyber Security Course

The Project

SlaveCheck is a global, survivor-centric modern slavery due diligence system – powered by the slavecheck.ai ‘collective intelligence’ clearinghouse –  designed to lead, coordinate and manage the systematic elimination of modern slavery.

They helps Reporting Entities (large companies and government agencies who have to comply with anti-slavery legislation) around the world overcome the four roadblocks to modern slavery compliance.

The objective of this project is to execute a thorough cybersecurity evaluation of SlaveCheck’s web application. This includes:

  • Assessing the web app’s security status.
  • Identifying potential cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Suggesting strategies for in-depth analysis or fixing detected vulnerabilities.
Web App Vulnerability

Meet Your Mentor

Austin Phillips

Manager of Security Engineering | Datascan

Meet Your Mentor

Austin Phillips is a comprehensive security practitioner with experience building and managing multiple teams across the information security industry. He has a proven expertise in security engineering, incident response, risk & vulnerability management, and security architecture. He is passionate about helping companies understand and resolve risks across on-prem and cloud

Austin Phillips is a comprehensive security practitioner with experience building and managing multiple teams across the information security industry. He has a proven expertise in security engineering, incident response, risk & vulnerability management, and security architecture. He is passionate about helping companies understand and resolve risks across on-prem and cloud environments. From leading SOC teams, to building threat intelligence programs, Austin is a leader with experience across multiple aspects of the industry. In his free time, he enjoys golf, fishing, and spending time with his family.

Where I’ve worked
  • Manager of Security Engineering @ Datascan
  • Sr. Technology Engineer @ Signature Consultants
  • Threat Analyst manager @ Conquest Cyber
What you'll learn
During your Cyber Security course you will develop the confidence to apply the full range of Cyber Security skills needed to be successful as a Security Analyst or SOC level 1/2. In this project, we’ll cover key capabilities in the Web App Vulnerability domain. Equally important to these skills will be developing your attitudinal strengths through the course so that you are as employable as possible upon graduation.


Firewalls

Firewalls are security systems that monitor and control incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules, acting as a barrier between a trusted network and an untrusted network.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

This knowledge area is a pre-requisite for our Cyber Security course. Your knowledge of Firewalls will support the project work you complete throughout the course.


Access Control

Access control in cybersecurity refers to the process of granting or denying specific requests to obtain and use information and related information processing services, ensuring that only authorized users have access to resources in a network or system.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

This knowledge area is a pre-requisite for our Cyber Security course. Your knowledge of Access Controls will support the project work you complete throughout the course.


Data Protection

Data protection in cybersecurity involves implementing measures and protocols to safeguard sensitive information from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft throughout its lifecycle.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of foundational concepts of data protection, including data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Mastering this skill area includes optimizing data protection strategies to address specific organisational needs and emerging threats.


Patch Management

Patch management in cybersecurity is the process of managing updates for software and systems, fixing vulnerabilities, enhancing functionality, and maintaining current security standards.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of patch management. Mastering this skill area includes a capability to develop strategies to ensure comprehensive and timely patch application across an organization.


Secure Coding Practices

Secure coding practices in cybersecurity involve the use of techniques and strategies to write software code that is robust against vulnerabilities and attacks, ensuring the security and integrity of applications.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of secure coding practices and common vulnerabilities. Mastering this skill area includes a capability to assess the effectiveness of secure coding practices and recommend improvements.


Vulnerability Identification

Vulnerability identification in cybersecurity is the process of discovering, categorizing, and assessing weaknesses in systems or software that could be exploited by cyber threats.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of what vulnerabilities are and why identifying them is essential. Mastering this skill area includes an ability to optimise the vulnerability identification process to ensure comprehensive coverage and accuracy.


Vulnerability Risk Assessment

Vulnerability risk assessment in cybersecurity involves evaluating identified vulnerabilities to determine their potential impact and the risk they pose to the organization's assets and operations.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of vulnerability risk assessment and its importance in determining the potential impact of vulnerabilities.. Mastering this skill area includes an ability to proficiently communicate accurate risk assessment results to different stakeholders.


Vulnerability Reporting

Vulnerability reporting in cybersecurity is the process of documenting and communicating identified vulnerabilities and their potential impacts to relevant stakeholders for informed decision-making and remediation.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of reporting vulnerabilities and can create simple reports. Mastering this skill area includes an ability to guide organizations in developing and optimising their vulnerability reporting processes.


Vulnerability Mitigation

Vulnerability mitigation in cybersecurity refers to the implementation of measures and strategies to reduce the impact or likelihood of exploited vulnerabilities in systems or software.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of vulnerability mitigation. Mastering this skill area includes an ability to communicate the importance and benefits of effective vulnerability mitigation to different stakeholders.


Kali Linux

Kali Linux in cybersecurity is a specialized Linux distribution designed for penetration testing and security auditing, equipped with a variety of tools for assessing and ensuring the security of systems.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of Kali Linux and its use in cybersecurity. Mastering this skill area includes an ability expertly in leverage Kali Linux for complex security challenges, contributing to tool development and optimization.


OpenVAS

OpenVAS in cybersecurity is an open-source framework consisting of services and tools for vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of vulnerability scanning, beginning to use OpenVAS for simple scans. Mastering this skill includes providing insights for scan optimization and contributing to security strategy development.


Nessus

Nessus in cybersecurity is a widely used vulnerability scanner tool that identifies vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential risks in networks to enhance their security posture.


How it will be practiced and demonstrated

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic concepts of vulnerability scanning with Nessus. Mastering this skill includes using Nessus to assist in shaping vulnerability management strategies and mentoring others in advanced techniques.

During your projects, you will have a chance to practice and demonstrate competency in communication by successfully transmitting your ideas, thinking processes and solutions in a way that is easily understood by others.

Your mentor will observe and assess your competency across a number of communication related skills including;

Listening

Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process. Listening is key to all effective communication and is not a passive process. In fact, the listener can, and should, be at least as engaged in the process as the speaker. The phrase ‘active listening’ is used to describe this process of being fully involved.

Presence

Your presence signals your capacity to stand out and make an impact on those around you. As you move into senior roles, this attribute becomes particularly important, however it is also an attribute that can support your ability to make a positive impression on hiring managers during a job interview process.

Articulation

An ability to express yourself in a coherent form helps to ensure people will understand your value. Great articulators are able to clearly communicate complex scenarios to their audience to ensure they are understood. This can go a long way to supporting your interview process and building confidence in those you are communicating with.

Inclusivity

In a modern work environment you are required to work with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and social positions. The most highly effective teams are those that are able to adapt and learn to work with a range of people and personalities.

A tried and true skill for any professional is the ability to present their ideas to an audience and effectively transmit the intended message. You will have the opportunity to strengthen your presentation skills in front of a live company stakeholder at the conclusion of your project(s).

Your mentor will observe and assess your competency across a number of presenting related skills including;

Introductions

Your presentations should take your audience on an engaging journey. How you start a presentation is critical to capturing your audience’s attention and establishing the premise and flow of the story line.

Presentation Structure

The structure of your presentations will determine whether your audience comes away with new insights and understanding or if they dis-engage from your message. Take the time to consider the structure of your ideas, the order they follow and how they how to support the audience on their journey to your conclusion.

Conclusions

Bring home your presentations with a conclusion that links back to your main points and introduction. The goal of a good conclusion to a presentation is leaving your audience with a tangible take-away that adds value to them. Knowing your audience and what is important to them is a key starting point to forming a strong conclusion.

Audience Feedback

At times you will be required to field questions and be ready to move off-script to maintain the value exchange between yourself and the audience. Great presenters encourage audience interaction and curate this dynamic to emphasise key points in the presentation without letting it derail their core message.

Presence

Your audience will feel as comfortable as you are. Therefore it is important to ensure you are as comfortable as possible with the material you are presenting and strive to maintain confidence in your own abilities to deliver the presentation. Practice makes perfect here so don’t get disheartened if it takes some time before you’re completely at ease delivering your message in a presentation format.

The best solutions are most often formed through the input of multiple people. In modern work environments, small team collaboration is an increasingly sought after skill by employers, as agile ways of working are adopted that bring together multiple disciplines around a unified challenge.

Your mentor will observe and assess your competency across a number of collaboration related skills including;

Interaction

Effective collaboration with others is one of the primary skills hiring managers look for in new talent, particularly for digital roles where you are required to work closely with individuals from all different departments and skill sets. Collaboration is the make up of all your interactions with your teammates and stakeholders.

Teamwork & Leadership

There will be times during your Harness Projects where you will need to work as a team to synthesise research or support each other with feedback and advice. You may be called on to lead as the group recognises a specific skill set in you in relation to a task at hand. Your communication skills will be your foundation for success here, so take the opportunity to step into leadership roles and inspire confidence in yourself and others.

Conflict Resolution

Conflict, arguments and change are a natural part of our lives and often helps us learn more about differing beliefs, cultures and backgrounds. How we respond to these moments goes a long way to determining how quickly a group, organisation or culture can find a foundation of harmony to continue working / relating effectively, to the task at hand.

Initiative & Contribution

Showing initiative is doing things without being told; finding out what you need to know, continuing when things get tough, and spotting and taking advantage of the opportunities that others pass by. You act, instead of reacting, at work. Initiative has become increasingly important in today’s workplace. Organizations want employees who can think on their feet and take action without waiting for someone to tell them what to do. After all, this type of flexibility and courage is what pushes teams and organizations to innovate and to overcome competition.

You will demonstrate empathy by listening to your end-users and stakeholders and appropriately translating their needs, motivations and pain points into your final recommendation solution. A number of important factors contribute your over empathy as a working professional. This includes compassion for your colleagues and customers, an openness to alternative ideas and ways of working, a curiosity to understand others on a deeper level and the social awareness to foresee the impacts of the work you contribute.

Your mentor will observe and assess your competency across a number of empathy related skills including;

Compassion

When you sit in a room with your colleagues or your clients do you ever look for where there’s a pain in the room? And if you do notice, do you feel content enough to do something about it? Studies are finding these simple acts found in compassionate workplaces are helping to produce more productive, efficient and happier employees in organizations. Differing slightly from empathy which allows us to mirror someone else’s feelings, or altruism which is an action that benefits someone else, compassion is an
emotional response when perceiving suffering and involves an authentic desire to help. At Harness Projects, we strive to build a team culture of compassion. We’re all on this learning journey together and the more we can demonstrate moments of compassion for one another and all of our unique experiences during the project the stronger the bond we will form and the better the outcomes will be for everyone involved.

Openness

Openness is one of the big 5 personality traits. People who demonstrate high levels of openness tend to be linked to high levels of creative thinking, curiosity and flexibility. Openness includes a receptivity to new ideas as well as an attention to the inner feelings of others. These are traits that will support you well in the problem solving work you do.

Curiosity

Curiosity is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning. Curiosity as a behavior and emotion is considered the driving force behind not only human development, but developments in science, language, and industry. Every problem you encounter will ask for a level of curiosity from you. The more you can surrender to that curiosity and reserve assumptions or early judgement, the more space you will have to seek out novel and effective solutions to the design challenge at hand. Not only that, but a curiosity in how you develop during this learning program is a self-awareness trait that hiring managers will value highly.

Social Awareness

Having an awareness of the impact of your work is critically important to how you can contribute to the world we want to live in. You are in an extremely fortunate position to be part of an education program along with learning a skill that can help shape the experiences of millions of less fortunate people. The projects we curate at Harness Projects are all about applying all of your efforts to meaningful causes. It hopefully shows us what is possible and demonstrate that all of our efforts when combined contribute to the type of world we want to live in.

Real-world projects can bring unexpected challenges and opportunities. Just like a real-world work environment, your capability for resourcefulness can go a long way to securing a successful career. Your mentor will guide you and assess you on your ability to demonstrate self-direction when required, problem solving and project management capabilities and your openness to learning from circumstances that arise. We focus on this to ensure that our graduates are equipped with the internal resourcefulness to excel in the workplace.

Your mentor will observe and assess your competency across a number of resourcefulness related skills including;

Self-direction

Self-direction is the ability to regulate and adapt your behavior to the demands of a situation in order to achieve one’s goals. Sometimes related to willpower, it describes the extent to which a person demonstrates integrated purposefulness rather than a disorganised set of reactive impulses. Throughout your project, there will be moments to receive guidance from others and moments to make the experience your own through self-directed learning. Ask questions and take actions that help to align your trajectory to the outcomes you have set for yourself during the project.

Problem Solving

Problems solving is at the centre of what many people do at work every day. Whether you’re solving a problem for a client (internal or external), supporting those who are solving problems, or discovering new problems to solve, the challenges you face can be large or small, simple or complex, and easy or difficult. Your project is a problem solving sandbox, with your project brief forming the overarching problem you are attempting to solve.
However, within that overarching problem are countless mini-problems that you will encounter on your journey.

Project Management

Project management skills are not simply reserved for those with the “Project Manager” title. In work, we all have a responsibility to apply effective project management skills to the work that we do. This includes managing our time, planning out the activities we intend to take to reach our goals and making the best use of the resources and support at hand. The earlier you can get into a project management mindset for your project the better it will go. Plan your time early and plan often. By staying on top of this during your projects, you will ensure a smooth run to the finish line instead of a heavy workload at the very end. This skill will serve you well in ensuring you maintain a work life balance in your career.

Learnability

Learnability is being seen by some companies as the most sought-after attribute for both employees and job candidates, even up to senior executive levels. Learnability describes someone’s aptitude for learning, developing new skills and adopting novel ways of doing things. Those individuals who are highly proficient learners are seen as adaptable and
therefore able to keep pace with the dizzying level of technological and commercial change companies are currently coping with. Disruptive innovation doesn’t disrupt them – they figure it out, adapt and are rapidly productive in the new environment.

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Hear Natalia’s Story

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A Harness Project essentially allows you to jump straight into a real project with a real client to help solve a problem the company is facing. With a small group of 12 students and a mentor to guide you through each step of the way, you are left with real life experience by presenting a final solution to a problem and a portfolio piece that you are proud of!

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Natalia Mierzwa

UX Designer | Commonwealth Bank