Secure Coding — Security by Design

Summary

Everyday work in software development asks for more than meeting an application's functional requirements. One non-functional quality matters above all others: security. With the Cyber Resilience Act, the European Union has put cyber security in the development process on a legal footing and given it still more weight. The act lays binding cyber security requirements on products with digital components, and makes secure coding something software development can no longer step around. ​ The workshop “Secure Coding — Security by Design” is the right occasion to get to grips with cyber security through hands-on exercises and to anchor that knowledge in how you build things. Participants learn to spot possible weaknesses the way an attacker would, to work out effective countermeasures and to build them in. The aim is to raise both the awareness and the ability of everyone taking part, so that the requirements of the CRA are met and the products and software you build match the harmonised rules.

Learning objectives

After completing the course you will be able to …

• understand what the CRA requires and what it means for developers
• you understand how attackers go about it
• you know the usual methods of attack
• you know the measures that keep them out
• you can test a website for its security
• you have a better eye for a weakness when you see one