Software testing and security

-Characteristics of large-scale software systems projects, team membership and activities.
-Networking vulnerabilities, access control, random number generation, cryptography, and authentication in software development.
-Understanding, exploiting, and mitigating common software vulnerabilities.
-Testing software to discover security vulnerabilities.
-Process models and lifecycles for secure software development.
-Threat modelling and formal techniques for vulnerability analysis.
-Secure deployment and post-deployment management of software.
-Understanding the implications of different computing environments on security and the software development process.
-Programming languages and security characteristics, decompilation, disassembly, and obfuscation.
-Recent examples from computing are used throughout and practical exercises used to illustrate the applications of these concepts.

Secure Software Engineering - 7138COMP

Secure Software Engineering

Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of applying security techniques to software development.

Apply best-practice security architectures and patterns to mitigate threats against software in different environments.

Show critical awareness of the complexity of contemporary software vulnerabilities and the techniques to discover and mitigate them.