Course Description:

This course offers a comprehensive coverage of practical knowledge in how to design secure software as well as insights on the significance of the role secure design plays during a software development life cycle. Some of the critical topics covered in this course include secure design principles and processes in addition to fundamental security concepts such as access control, encryption, etc. This course also devotes a significant amount of time to discussing well known secure design solutions including architectural patterns and design patterns focusing on security countermeasures and concludes with the discussion of software security analysis and evaluation as mechanisms to assess the effectiveness of the secure design solutions implemented in the form of source code.