Software Development Security

Course Description

Covers software development security, while focusing on the systems development life cycle, operating systems and their environments. Additional topics include the role of various databases in security and how to recognize and guard against attacks on software. Provides students the opportunity to apply application security controls.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

• Discuss the role of security in software development
• Explain the systems development life cycle and compare its eight stages
• Understand what the operating system is and how it works
• Describe different application and operating environments
• Discuss the role of databases in information security and identify different database types
• Apply several application security controls
• Recognize several software-based attacks and describe methods to guard against them