Secure Software Design Specialization

Design and Maintain Secure Software. Acquire attitudes and skills to produce designs of secure software.

About This Specialization

This specialization is for those with limited workplace experience in software development to obtain the background, perspective and skills to recognize important security aspects of software they are expected to design. Mindsets and attitudes of successful designers--and hackers--are presented as well as project successes and failures

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4 courses

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Projects

Designed to help you practice and apply the skills you learn.

Certificates

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Projects Overview

Students will create a Unified Modeling Language (UML) Class diagram and a UML Sequence diagram using IBM’s Rhapsody modeling tool for a set of classes and actions described in the lectures. Downloading and activating Rhapsody is also covered. Students will also download and install NetBeans for Java and JUnit, a unit testing tool. Students will configure NetBeans to use JUnit and test code written for the classes and methods described in the UML project. Finally, students will explore case studies of a successful (Bitcoin) and unsuccessful (Therac-25) designs.

Courses

Beginner Specialization.: No prior experience required.

COURSE 1
Software Design as an Element of the Software Development Lifecycle
Commitment
4 weeks, 1-2 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
This course talks about software development lifecycles a description/prescription for how we write software. Design is a step in this life cycle, and the course explores the implications of this. Design has a role in the life cycle; it is alway
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COURSE 2
Software Design as an Abstraction
Commitment
4 weeks 2-3 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
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 l
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COURSE 3
Software Design Methods and Tools
Commitment
4 weeks, 2-2.5 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
Since many software developers are compulsive coders, they have created software over the years to help them do their job. There are tools which make design and its associated tasks easier. The course introduces some basic tools and techniques
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COURSE 4
Software Design Threats and Mitigations
Commitment
4 weeks, 3-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
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 l
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Creators

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science is consistently recognized as one of the top engineering schools in the country according to US News.
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.

Albert Glock
Instructor

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