This course is part of the Secure Software Design Specialization

Albert Glock

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Secure Software Design SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System

About this Course

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The design step in developing software has some unique characteristics.  First of all, it’s the only step where drawing pictures of things is the norm.  Why is that?  What do pictures do that other representations cannot do?  Pictures have varying levels of detail; pictures have context.  Pictures…paint a picture.  Why are these things important?  In this course, too, we begin looking at other disciplines (building architecture is a favorite one) for lessons on design.

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Approx. 19 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

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Albert Glock

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Computer Science

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 19 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

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University of Colorado System

The University of Colorado is a recognized leader in higher education on the national and global stage. We collaborate to meet the diverse needs of our students and communities. We promote innovation, encourage discovery and support the extension of knowledge in ways unique to the state of Colorado and beyond.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Common Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses

How to use the CVE and CWE on-line databases to assess threats and mitigations

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 17 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes

4 videos

Introduction to Threats and Mitigations1m

Open source threat and mitigation information3m

Medical analogies6m

Secure software design is good software design.4m

4 readings

Additional Resource10m

2 practice exercises

Open source threat and mitigation information30m

Secure software design is good software design30m

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Specific Design Considerations

Specific things you can do to create a better design.

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 26 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

2 videos

Design Principles in detail -- I17m

Design Principles in detail - II8m

2 readings

Additional Resource30m

1 practice exercise

Design Principles in detail30m

Week

Week 3

1 hour to complete

Building Security in

Security must be built in to a project, not added on.

1 hour to complete

2 videos (Total 12 min)

2 videos

Security as a build-on, not an add-on4m

Active vs Passive security7m

1 practice exercise

Active vs Passive security30m

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

A Dramatic Failure

The consequences of a bad design can haunt you forever.

2 hours to complete

1 video (Total 14 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

1 video

Therac-25 Case Study14m

1 reading

Additional Resource30m

1 practice exercise

Therac-25 Case Study30m

About the Secure Software Design Specialization

Information security is an extremely important topic in our world today. As individuals, we seek to protect our personal information while the corporations we work for have to protect suppliers, customers, and company assets. Creating secure software requires implementing secure practices as early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as possible.

This Specialization focuses on ensuring security as part of software design and is for anyone with some workplace experience in software development who needs the background, perspective, and skills to recognize important security aspects of software design. You’ll consider secure design for multiple SDLC models, software architecture considerations, and design patterns. You’ll understand how to identify and implement secure design when considering databases, UML, unit testing, and ethics. Mindsets and attitudes of successful designers—and hackers—are presented as well as project successes and failures. Always at the core of front-end design will be user experience and you will have the opportunity to ensure clean and effective user interfaces that also serve to provide the best security. Back-end development topics such as database design are also covered.

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