Writing Secure Code

Description

A company may have millions of lines of existing code, and tens of millions of dollars of investment in their business based on those lines of code. It is not reasonable to expect that the applications that those millions of lines of code support can be redesigned securely from scratch in a cost-effective fashion.

In this course, learn and experience intermediate and advanced techniques that systems and applications programmers can use to write new code securely, as well as to find and mitigate vulnerabilities in existing code. In addition to covering these threats, we discuss various tools and techniques that can be used to secure large amounts of legacy code. Our course will demonstrate how to use off-the-shelf tools to secure an existing, large enterprise application.

What you will learn

• Control Hijacking Attacks and Defenses
• Attacks Using Virtual Machines
• Tools for Writing Code Securely
• Static and Dynamic Analysis
• Language-based Security Models
• Isolation Techniques

This course features an interactive, virtual lab. In a controlled environment, you’ll be given an opportunity to identify flaws and manipulate systems, and perform ethical hacking. By understanding how these hacks are executed, you’ll be better equipped to defend against them.

Exclusive Interviews

• Himanshu Dwivedi, CEO, Data Theorem
• Mukul Khullar, Staff Information Security Engineer, LinkedIn
• Parisa Tabriz, Engineering Director, Google

Prerequisites

We recommend that you have the equivalent of a BS in computer science, or a background in cybersecurity.

If you are less familiar with the content, we recommend starting with the course Foundations of Information Security. It provides the fundamentals necessary for subsequent courses in the program.

Time Commitment

This course is approximately 6 hours of video content with 4 hours of coursework. This course includes optional coding labs.