Designing for Security Course

The process you use to design your software should reflect what is important to you, your customers, and other project stakeholders.

1 hour, 34 minutes

Course description

Following this rationale, if software security is important to you, it should be an important part of your design processes. In this course, you will apply general principles to design secure software and apply threat modeling techniques to identify threats and countermeasures.

Syllabus

Design Software to Counter Specific Threats, Part 2

Video - 00:14:00
Apply General Principles for Secure Design, Part 2

Video - 00:07:00
Activity: Identifying Threats and Countermeasures

Video - 00:06:00
Design Software to Counter Specific Threats

Video - 00:14:00
Activity: Avoiding Common Security Design Flaws

Video - 00:04:00
Use Secure Design Patterns

Video - 00:09:00
Apply General Principles for Secure Design

Video - 00:10:00
Secure Coding - Python

Lab - 00:30:00
This lab covers multiple secure coding errors commonly found in Python, including deserialization and XML based attacks.

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Associated NICE Work Roles

All Infosec training maps directly to the NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity to guide you from beginner to expert across 52 Work Roles.

  • All-Source Analyst
  • Mission Assessment Specialist
  • Exploitation Analyst

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