Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
COMP.SEC.300
Secure Programming, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Course code
COMP.SEC.300Language of instruction
EnglishAcademic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027Level of study
Advanced studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Marko HeleniusResponsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
Common learning outcomes
International outlook and global responsibility
Core content
- design principles of secure programming
- secure programming skills
- avoiding and preventing vulnerabilities
- secure software development lifecycle
Complementary knowledge
- security architecture, design, mental models and checklists
- secure usage of data bases
- experimentation with buffer overflow, XSS and CSRF
- immersion to a selected focus area
- security testing
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
Further information
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
To pass the course, you must pass the exercises, participate in the exercise groups and prepare and present an exercise work.
Completion of all options is required.
Participation in teaching
07.01.2025 – 20.05.2025
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Independent study
07.03.2025 – 31.05.2025
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)