CS 615 - Software Security

The security of a software system should be part of every phase of the software development cycle: design, development, testing, deployment, provisioning, and execution. This course provides students with a broad familiarity with security concepts pertaining to software development. Students gain hands-on skills and deep theoretical knowledge by applying these concepts to actual software development. Students learn how to use existing software security APIs when writing software. A number of databases security issues are also discussed. In addition, students learn about threats that malicious software or hackers can inject into vulnerable software, and become familiar with testing and analysis tools used by software developers to close vulnerabilities. The course also provides an overview of cryptography and network security. Furthermore, the course includes the study of recent research papers that expose the students to the state of the art in the field of software security.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: CS 600
Offered in the Fall Semester