Software Programming Fundamentals: Software Security Best Practices Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
Security is a major concern when designing and developing a software application. In this course, you'll learn the best practices for implementing security within your applications. This includes handling authentication and passwords, validating data, handling and logging errors, ensuring file and database security, and managing memory.
Target Audience
This path is targeted toward managers and developers wishing to learn the best practices used in the design and development of software applications. Working knowledge of the software creation process and software programming may be beneficial.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
2.0
Lesson Objectives Software Programming Fundamentals: Software Security Best Practices
start the course
identify the goal of application security and the need to consider security issues in the design and development of software applications
list the guidelines for implementing security in your software development process
recognize the various ways that your application can develop security problems
identify the possible consequences of security problems
identify the importance of data validation within your application
describe the main functions that your data validation should perform on input data
recognize code that follows best practices for validating input data
identify the importance of validating and encoding output data returned from your application
recognize code that follows best practices for validating output data
recognize the importance of implementing authentication within your application and how it relates to security issues
identify the various resources requiring authentication and potential associated security issues
identify best practices for implementing authentication within your application
recognize best practices for creating secure passwords
recognize best practices for allowing users to change or recover passwords
identify best practices for managing and maintaining passwords
describe best practices for safely and securely handling errors in your application
list information contained in logs and how to securely handle the log files your application generates
identify best practices for securing data that is accessible by your application
describe best practices for securing the uploading of files from within your application
describe best practices for securing database access from your application
identify best practices your application should use for managing memory
list the best practices for creating secure applications
Course Number: sd_spfm_a03_it_enus
Expertise Level
Beginner