Application Security (5cr)

Objective

After completing the course the student is able to:
- Understand common application security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks
- Evaluate the technical and business impacts of different kinds of attacks
- Describethe security principles for developing high security web applications
- participate in high security web applications developing projects
- use security testing tools
- analyse and report the results from security testing
- give justified improvement proposals to mitigate security vulnerabilities

Content

- Network discovery, port and service identification
- Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing
- Web application security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks
- The impacts of security breaches
- Web application security principles
- Implementing a secure web application
- Web application security organizations