Secure Software Development

The Secure Software Development Training is a comprehensive program designed to equip participants with the essential knowledge and skills to develop secure software applications. In today's digital l...

Delivery Method: Instructor-Led Training

Course Delivery Format: live

Course Level

Timeline

Price

£200

Description

The Secure Software Development Training is a comprehensive program designed to equip participants with the essential knowledge and skills to develop secure software applications. In today's digital landscape, where security breaches and cyber threats are on the rise, it is crucial for software developers to understand and implement robust security measures throughout the development lifecycle. This training course aims to provide participants with a solid foundation in secure software development principles, best practices, and industry-standard tools and techniques.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the fundamental concepts and principles of secure software development.
  • Identify common security vulnerabilities and threats in software applications.
  • Learn secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and enhance application security.
  • Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms.
  • Apply secure communication protocols to protect data in transit.
  • Explore techniques for secure data storage and encryption.
  • Understand the importance of input validation and output encoding.
  • Learn about secure software development frameworks and libraries.
  • Gain knowledge of secure software development methodologies and processes.
  • Apply security testing techniques to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.

Course Outline

Course Outline for Secure Software Development

Introduction to Secure Software Development

  • Understanding the importance of secure software development
  • Overview of security principles and concepts and Common security vulnerabilities and threats

Secure Coding Practices

  • Principles of secure coding
  • Input validation and output encoding
  • Secure error handling and Secure exception handling

Authentication and Authorization

  • Authentication mechanisms and best practices
  • Authorization models and access controls and User management and password security

Secure Communication

  • Securing network communication
  • Transport Layer Security (TLS)
  • Secure sockets and APIs and Secure remote procedure calls

Secure Data Storage and Encryption

  • Data storage security considerations
  • Encryption algorithms and techniques and Key management and secure key storage

Secure Software Development Frameworks and Libraries

  • Introduction to secure development frameworks
  • Secure coding libraries and APIs and Leveraging third-party security solutions

Secure Software Development Methodologies

  • Secure software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Threat modeling and risk assessment and Secure code review and testing

Security Testing

  • Overview of security testing techniques
  • Static and dynamic code analysis
  • Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment and Security testing tools and frameworks

Secure Deployment and Maintenance

  • Secure software deployment considerations
  • Patch management and updates and Incident response and handling security incidents

Best Practices and Future Trends

  • Industry best practices for secure software development
  • Emerging trends in software security and Continuous improvement and staying up-to-date

Course Prerequisites

Participants should have a basic understanding of software development concepts and programming languages. Familiarity with web application development and networking concepts would be beneficial but not mandatory.

Career Path

  • Software Engineer
  • Security Software Engineer
  • Software Security Architect
  • Front & Backend Software Developer

Target Audience

  • Software developers
  • Software engineers
  • System architects
  • Security professionals
  • Project managers

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Exams & Certifications

  • CSSLP – Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
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