National CAE Designated Institution
  • Online, Self-Paced

This course mainly covers the design and implementation of secure software. The characteristics of secure software, security role in the development lifecycle, the designing secure software, and best security programming practices will be covered.

Learning Objectives

Students who complete this course successfully will be able to: 1) describe the security goal and values in software engineering; 2) measure and identify the weakness in the system; 3) incorporate requirements into secured software development process and test software for security vulnerability; 4) apply secure design principles for developing attack resistant software product; 5) identify vulnerable code in implemented software and describe attack consequences.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Software Development

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.