This course takes a holistic approach to software and application security. Students learn how and why to incorporate security features into the design process for an application, and introduced to common security threats for different application environments including software, web applications, and mobile applications. Students analyze applications for security vulnerabilities through code review and various methods for static and dynamic testing, and to apply prevention techniques and countermeasures for known vulnerabilities. As the threat landscape for applications is constantly evolving, students learn to identify and address emerging application security issues. 3 Credits