Application Security (5 cr)
Code: 3011640-3003
General information
- Enrollment
- 20.07.2022 - 15.09.2022
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 29.08.2022 - 16.12.2022
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
- Seats
- 40 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Business Information Technology
- Teachers
- Jani Ekqvist
- Groups
-
PTIETS20swisPTIETS20 Software Development and Information Security
- Course
- 3011640
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
Period 3:
- Web application security
Period 4:
- Security testing
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
Materials
Online material, provided through ItsLearning.
Student workload
Lectures 15h
Self-Study with online materials 40h
Laboratory Work 40h
Project Work 40h
Evaluation methods and criteria
The evaluation is based on:
- Homework assignments, 40% of grade
- Laboratory assignments, 40% of grade
- Project work, 20% of grade
Further information
All communication is through ItsLearning.