Study Guide

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

Content scheduling

Period 3:
- Web application security

Period 4:
- Security testing

Further information

All communication is through ItsLearning.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluation is based on:
- Homework assignments, 40% of grade
- Laboratory assignments, 40% of grade
- Project work, 20% of grade