14-735 Secure Coding
Location: Pittsburgh
Units: 12
Semester Offered: Fall
Course description
This course will enable students to understand how software coding defects lead to software vulnerabilities, develop secure software, and manage teams that develop secure software. This course provides a detailed explanation of common programming errors in C and C++ and describes how these errors can lead to code that is vulnerable to exploitation. The course covers secure software development tools and processes while focusing on low-level technical security issues intrinsic to the C and C++ programming languages and associated libraries. The course relies on "learning-by-doing", where students practice hands-on sophisticated secure coding concepts through continuous debugging and creative approaches. Many aspects of the assignments mimic the challenges developers face in a real-world software system. Some assignments will introduce students to a programming language that they might have never seen before such as JavaScript and Rust.
For more information about the course, please see https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/education/course-list/secure-coding.html