Application Security (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Period 3:
- Application security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks
- The impacts of security breaches
- Application security principles
- Application security organizations and standards

Period 4:
- Designing and implementing a secure web application
- Building secure continuous development and operations environment

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 12h
Self-Study with online materials 40h
Laboratory Work 40h
Project Work 40h
Project presentations and reflection 3h

Further information

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