Course overview
The purpose of the course is to learn about secure software, including its design, implementation and maintenance. During the course students will be exposed to a selection of topics from the following: performing threat modelling, issues in authentication and authorisation, auditing for security, input sanitising, TOCTOU vulnerabilities, memory management issues, fixing vulnerabilities and patch distribution. The course requires previous programming experience and some understanding of computer systems.
Course learning outcomes
- Employ secure software development practicesIdentify common vulnerable programming patterns
- Develop exploits for security vulnerability
- Choose mitigation strategies for common vulnerability patterns
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