Identifying the Need for Security in Your Software Projects Course

The first step in tackling the problem of software security is to understand the challenges you're up against.

3 hours, 9 minutes

Course description

In this course, you will identify requirements and cyber security standards that apply to your software development projects, and the consequences of not meeting them; identify people, process, and product factors that undermine software security; identify ways that software security may be broken to gain insights into software vulnerabilities; use information sources to find vulnerabilities and exploits affecting your software projects.

Syllabus

Lab Files

File - 00:10:00

Lab Troubleshooting Guide

File - 00:10:00

Lab Setup Guide

File - 00:10:00

Links and Resources File

File - 00:10:00

Gather Intelligence on Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Video - 00:04:00

Activity - Having Fun With a Modern Hashing Algorithm

Video - 00:06:00

Activity - Validating a Password

Video - 00:04:00

Activity - Saving Hashes for Future Use

Video - 00:06:00

Activity - Securing the Password Hash

Video - 00:05:00

Activity - Hashing a Password

Video - 00:05:00

Activity - Protect Against a Poison Null Byte

Video - 00:08:00

Activity - Adding a Security Feature to Your Code

Video - 00:07:00

Building and Breaking Passwords

Video - 00:09:00

Activity - Identifying Vulnerabilities in an Application

Video - 00:11:00

Find Vulnerabilities in Your Software

Video - 00:15:00

Identify Factors that Undermine Software Security, Part 2

Video - 00:05:00

Identify Factors that Undermine Software Security

Video - 00:12:00

Activity - Identifying Security Requirements and Expectations

Video - 00:06:00

Identify Security Requirements and Expectations

Video - 00:15:00

Introduction

Video - 00:01:00

Secure Coding - C/C++

Lab - 00:30:00

This lab covers multiple secure coding errors commonly found in C and C++, including buffer overruns, strcpy(), gets(), and the system() function.

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