University of Colorado Boulder
Secure Software Design Specialization
Design and maintain secure software.. Acquire the attitudes and skills needed to produce designs of secure software.| Length | 1 to 3 months |
| Effort | 8 hours per week |
| Price | Free |
| Subject | Design, Computer Science |
| Level | Beginner |
| Languages | English |
| Video Transcripts | English |
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.
What you'll learn
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Secure design
UML, unit testing, and ethics
Effective user interfaces
Database design
Course syllabus
COURSE 1: Software Design as an Element of the Software Development Lifecycle COURSE 2: Software Design as an Abstraction COURSE 3: Software Design Methods and Tools COURSE 4: Software Design Threats and Mitigations
Meet the instructors
Albert Glock
Instructor
Computer Science