Secure Software Development

Catalog description

Traditionally, software engineering has viewed flaws as the inconsistency of software behavior with its functional requirements. Software security problems, however, can occur in software that contains no such flaws but is nonetheless susceptible to external attack. This course examines known reasons for software security vulnerabilities with an emphasis on best practices for their detection and mitigation, along with general principles for engineering software in ways that enhance security. This course is taught largely at an undergraduate level. Graduate students have additional course requirements/expectations. Prerequisite: CS 356 ; junior standing. Offered Spring - Even Numbered Years.