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Building secure and trustworthy systems, I.e. systems that are hard to attack and protect the privacy of their users, are very hard to build. In this module, you will learn the foundations of building secure (software) systems ‘right from the beginning’. You will learn how to assess the threats of a system that need to be mitigated while building it, the risk assessment of vulnerabilities, as well as various approaches (e.g. defensive programming) and techniques for building secure systems. The module focuses on defensive security techniques that might be used by “blue teams.” 

Pre-requisites: none 

Co-requisites: ECM462 (Fundamentals of Security)