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Secure Coding Foundations

Writing code that is hard to break: threat modelling and secure-design principles; input validation and output encoding; injection in all its forms; authentication, secrets and correct cryptography; error handling and logging; dependencies and the supply chain; security review and automated testing; and an application-hardening project.

  • IntermediateBest if you know the basics
  • 28 hTotal content time
  • 18 lessonsOrdered from basics to practice
  • In ArabicWith technical terms in English

About this course

Writing code that is hard to break: threat modelling and secure-design principles; input validation and output encoding; injection in all its forms; authentication, secrets and correct cryptography; error handling and logging; dependencies and the supply chain; security review and automated testing; and an application-hardening project.

Academy-authored content.

Course highlights

  • Apply threat modelling and secure-design principles to code
  • Validate input with allow-lists and encode output for its context
  • Prevent SQL, command, template and deserialisation injection
  • Handle authentication, secrets and cryptography correctly
  • Fail safely, log securely and manage dependencies
  • Review code and automate security testing in the workflow

The practical result

What you’ll build in this course

Writing code that is hard to break: threat modelling and secure-design principles; input validation and output encoding; injection in all its forms; authentication, secrets and correct cryptography; error handling and logging; dependencies and the supply chain; security review and automated testing; and an application-hardening project.

Final lesson: Lesson 6.3

Is this course for you?

Who it’s for

  • developers and computing students

Requirements

  • CRS-GEN-PYTHON

Course content

  • 8units
  • 18sessions
  • 7quizzes
Unit 13 sessions
  1. Lesson 1.1
  2. Lesson 1.2
  3. Lesson 1.3
Unit 23 sessions
  1. Lesson 2.1
  2. Lesson 2.2
  3. Lesson 2.3
Unit 33 sessions
  1. Lesson 3.1
  2. Lesson 3.2
  3. Lesson 3.3
Unit 43 sessions
  1. Lesson 4.1
  2. Lesson 4.2
  3. Lesson 4.3
Unit 53 sessions
  1. Lesson 5.1
  2. Lesson 5.2
  3. Lesson 5.3
Unit 63 sessions
  1. Lesson 6.1
  2. Lesson 6.2
  3. Lesson 6.3
Quizzes0 sessions · 7 quizzes
  1. Quiz 1
  2. Quiz 2
  3. Quiz 3
  4. Quiz 4
  5. Quiz 5
  6. Quiz 6
  7. Final exam
Projects and assignments0 sessions
  1. Assignment 1
  2. Assignment 2
  3. Assignment 3

The lecturer

Lecturer

Eng. Abdelmaksoud

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