As you\ncan imagine, one of the first benefits is going to be the improvement or even\nthe acquisition of\nskills in application security<\/strong> . Indeed, all these\nchallenges are intended to make you understand flaws and attack\ntechniques. You will therefore have to improve your skills on these\nvarious elements and acquire a good understanding, you will then be able\nto test the flaws in\nyour codes<\/strong> , but also to correct your codes<\/strong> . You\nshould even be able to limit the number of flaws in the codes you produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These\nacquired advantages are not at all negligible for your professional career and\nfor your employer, since we still consider that 90% of web applications<\/strong> have\nat least one flaw. And you will learn that with certain language such as\nPHP, you very easily\nleave a lot of critical flaws<\/strong> in your codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nsecond thing it will do for you is to improve your debugging skills and a much better understanding of the\noverall functioning<\/strong> of the systems you are working\non. I realized that very often web development students had never played\nwith browser headers or even opened a frame analyzer. Result ? A very\npoor understanding of their environments on what they can do<\/strong> or\neven on the elements\nthat a hacker could modify<\/strong> to harm your application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You will\nunderstand if you increase your understanding, debugging your applications will\nbe simplified. Since I regularly do security challenges I have\nconsiderably improved\nmy debugging skills<\/strong> and you will see it quickly too if you\nstart these exercises. You will be able to improve your debugging\nprocesses to gain speed and simply set up bug replay. You will be able to\nbetter understand some bug and also improve your ability to create a real test\ngame, in particular by adding classic attacks to see if your application\ninvolves risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These\nskills will also allow you to better understand the encoding and string management\nissues<\/strong> that can drive you crazy at times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is\nvery important is not\nto limit yourself to challenges<\/strong> directly associated with\ndevelopment, but to try\nall the challenges<\/strong> . Indeed by going to carry out\nexercises on the networks or even on forensic you will acquire very important\nknowledge. It will be the same for the challenges having for subject cryptography<\/strong> , you\nwill gain understanding in these fields and you will see that the\nimplementation of cryptographic library will be much easier thereafter<\/strong> !<\/p>\n\n\n\n They will\nhelp you better understand the implications of the network in your\napplications, but also once again help you improve your debugging<\/strong> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n We hope we\nhave convinced you of the merits of participating in these IT security challenges,\nto do so you can\nfind specialized websites<\/strong> such as: RootMe<\/a> , NewbieContest<\/a> , WeChall<\/a> . Or participate in\ncompetitions in a limited time that we call CTF you will find on the site ctftime.org<\/a> whether they are participating online or in physics<\/strong> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 – Increase your skills in secure development As you can imagine, one of the first benefits is going to be the improvement or even the acquisition of skills in application security . Indeed, all these challenges are intended to make you understand flaws and attack techniques. You will therefore have to improve your skills on these various elements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[210],"tags":[234,150],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-development","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n2 – Global understanding and debugging<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3 – Don’t limit yourself to development\nchallenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n