Writing Secure Code

When writing software, we’re faced with many different requirements: It should work, it should have good performance, and it should be easy to update and change. Most of the requirements we’re facing have one thing in common: If mistakes are made, they are usually obvious. With security, things are different. It can take moments to write insecure code, but months of hard work to find and exploit it. In this course, we’ll learn the patterns that make our code insecure, as well as the concepts behind them. We’ll explore famous hacks from-the-past, and understand how to mitigate security risks. This course is t focused on the C++ Programming. We reference the current CERT C++ Coding standard as another reference source for the course.