ASD 261 – Application Security
Applied Bachelor’s Degree in Software Development
Course ID
ASD 261
Course Credits
4
About ASD 261 – Application Security
This class will teach students the concepts and techniques that enable modern web application security to maintain high performance and provide offensive and defensive security concepts that software engineers must know. The students will also learn to protect web applications using the latest techniques. Upon the course completion, students will be ready to develop mitigations for their web applications to protect against hackers and apply secure coding best practices into application development lifecycle.
Topics Covered In Course
ASD 261 Topics
- Fundamentals to Web Application Security Fundamentals
- Authentication and Authorization
- Browser Security Principles
- Database and File Security Principles
- Secure Development Methodologies
Prerequisites
Students must have experience using a keyboard and mouse in a GUI-based OS such as Microsoft Windows or Macintosh and understand how to download and install programs found on the Internet. Student must be familiar with principles of procedural programming, software development and debugging techniques, control structures, data types, functions, arrays, and file processing, can write, and understand, applications that make use of both server-side and client-side code, and communicate between the two over HTTP. Student is familiar with at least one popular database (MySQL).