Software Development Security

You are the target

Many organizations use custom-developed software to achieve their unique business objectives. These custom solutions can present great security vulnerabilities as a result of malicious and/or careless developers who create back doors, buffer overflow vulnerabilities, or other weaknesses that can leave a system open to exploitation by malicious individuals.

Why IT Systems

Organizations develop IT systems to meet important business objectives, such as:

• Improving competitiveness
• Increasing productivity and efficiency Accelerating growth
• Supporting innovation
• Reducing costs

This was according to IT research and advisory company Gartner in a survey of the priorities sought by more than 2,000 chief information officers. The surveyed CIOs see technology strategies as closely related to business strategies.

Who can take this course

• Successful learners in this course typically should have completed some basics of software design and development.
• Basic knowledge of Software development methodologies (not mandatory)
• Have some familiarity with programming, ideally in C/C++ and other “managed” program language (like MS environment or Java).
• Have prior exposure to algorithms.
• Students not familiar with these languages but with others can improve their skills through online web tutorials.