Cyber Security Engineering: A Practical Approach for Systems and Software Assurance

Appendix C. The Software Assurance Curriculum Project

The SEI established the Software Assurance Curriculum Project in 2009. The project has developed four documents that correlate well with the objective to enhance SwA curriculum guidance (see Table C.1).

Table C.1 Software Assurance Curriculum Project Documents

The courses listed in Table C.1 go well beyond secure coding and SwA at the implementation level. They cover security issues throughout the life cycle, as part of requirements analysis, architecture and module design, implementation, testing, and operation and maintenance. The graduate level includes additional SwA topics in such traditional ...