CYB 426 - Principles of Secure Software Development

(Formerly CYB 326.) CYB 202; CSC 275 or CSC 276. (4)

Study of secure software development fundamentals and best practices. Focus on the cybersecurity of software by design from earliest stages. Discussions include software security risks, open source versus closed source, guiding principles, auditing software, buffer overflows, access control, trust management, input validation, password authentication, and client-side security. Graded ABCDE