Cyber Secure Coder (Exam CSC-210)

As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, software security can no longer be treated as an afterthought. Integrating security and privacy into every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is now essential for organizations aiming to protect sensitive data, ensure compliance, and reduce costly vulnerabilities.

This hands-on course equips developers, engineers, and project leads with the skills to design, develop, and maintain secure software applications. Through real-world examples and guided labs using Python and JavaScript, you’ll explore key concepts such as secure architecture, threat mitigation, secure coding practices, and post-deployment security maintenance. Whether you're building web, mobile, or cloud applications, this course helps you embed "Security by Design" into your development workflow.

Objectives

In this course, you will employ best practices in software development to develop secure software.

You will learn:

• Identify the need for security in your software projects.
• Eliminate vulnerabilities within the software.
• Use a Security by Design approach to design a secure architecture for your software.
• Implement common protections to protect users and data.
• Apply various testing methods to find and correct security defects in your software.
• Maintain deployed software to ensure ongoing security.

This course includes hands-on activities for each topic area. These activities aim to demonstrate concepts utilizing two universal languages, Python and JavaScript. Developers who use alternate languages can apply the principles from the activities to any coding language.

Hands-on exercises are designed to keep code typing to a bare minimum. CertNexus provides students with all of the code they need to complete activities. The activities do not require a “deep dive” into code to understand the covered principles.

Outline

Below is the course content, which includes a detailed outline of topics and materials covered in the course. Explore and enhance your knowledge!

Lesson 1: Identifying the Need for Security in Your Software Projects

Topic A: Identify Security Requirements and Expectations

Topic B: Identify Factors That Undermine Software Security

Topic C: Find Vulnerabilities in Your Software

Topic D: Gather Intelligence on Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Lesson 2: Handling Vulnerabilities

Topic A: Handle Vulnerabilities Due to Software Defects and Misconfiguration

Topic B: Handle Vulnerabilities Due to Human Factors

Topic C: Handle Vulnerabilities Due to Process Shortcomings

Lesson 3: Designing for Security

Topic A: Apply General Principles for Secure Design

Topic B: Design Software to Counter Specific Threats

Lesson 4: Developing Secure Code

Topic A: Follow Best Practices for Secure Coding

Topic B: Prevent Platform Vulnerabilities

Topic C: Prevent Privacy Vulnerabilities

Lesson 5: Implementing Common Protections

Topic A: Limit Access Using Login and User Roles

Topic B: Protect Data in Transit and At Rest

Topic C: Implement Error Handling and Logging

Topic D: Protect Sensitive Data and Functions

Topic E: Protect Database Access

Lesson 6: Testing Software Security

Topic A: Perform Security Testing

Topic B: Analyze Code to find Security Problems

Topic C: Use Automated Testing Tools to Find Security Problems

Lesson 7: Maintaining Security in Deployed Software

Topic A: Monitor and Log Applications to Support Security

Topic B: Maintain Security after Deployment

Pre-Requisite

This course presents secure programming concepts that apply to many software development projects. Although this course uses Python, HTML, and JavaScript to demonstrate various programming concepts, you do not need experience in these languages to benefit from this course. However, you should have some programming experience, whether developing desktop, mobile, web, or cloud applications. Logical Operations provides a variety of Cybersecurity courses covering software development that you might use to prepare for this course, such as:

• Python Programming: Introduction
• Python Programming: Advanced
• HTML5: Content Authoring with New and Advanced Features 
• SQL Querying: Fundamentals (Second Edition)

Methodology

• Batch-wise training
• Practical hands-on training with real-time examples

By completing this course, you now have a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate security and privacy into the software development process, from planning and architecture to secure coding, testing, and maintenance. You've learned how to identify common vulnerabilities, implement robust security controls, and apply real-world strategies to protect users, systems, and data.

You are now well-prepared to build software that not only meets functionality goals but also defends against emerging threats. Your ability to implement secure development practices positions you as a valuable contributor in today’s security-conscious software teams.