Who Should Attend
This ten-week online course is designed for:
- Graduate students and college educators
- Software engineers and related software development roles
- IT and cyber professionals
- Professionals with at least one year of experience coding with a programming language
- Professionals looking to achieve competency with secure and robust programming
What You'll Learn
This ten-week 45-hour course is built to bring learners to competency with secure programming for a variety of common and complex cases. It provides a deep understanding of the principles of secure programming and capability to write secure and robust code.
- Demonstrate how violating principles of secure programming leads to weaknesses in code
- Analyze programs to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities
- Remediate common vulnerabilities in an existing program
- Write secure and robust code
- Deploy common defense mechanisms to prevent exploits to code
- Integrate into the Secure Programming community of practice to stay current
- Apply critical concepts in Secure Programming
Learners who complete the course will receive a digital badge that can be added to professional profiles and shared with employers. Learners will also receive 4.5 quarter units or 3 semester units for the course.
Logistics and How to Apply
The course will be taught online via self-paced learning technology and will have virtual office hours. Students will be expected to complete all modules in the course at their own pace over ten weeks. The course is taught by University of California at Davis and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and course cohort starts are planned for the following dates (please note that dates may change):
- June 23-August 29, 2025. Taught by UMBC and UCD
All attendees will receive a full scholarship for the course so the cost will be $0. Current and former military and first responders will have priority. To apply for the scholarship to attend the course, click below.