Structuring a Comprehensive Software Security Course Around the OWASP Application Security Verification StandardJSEET
Thu 27 May 2021 08:40 - 09:00 at JSEET Room - 2.2. Institutional Strategies to SE Education I
Lack of security expertise among software practitioners is a problem with many implications. First, there is a deficit of security professionals to meet current needs. Additionally, even practitioners who do not plan to work in security may benefit from increased understanding of security. The goal of this paper is to aid software engineering educators in designing a comprehensive software security course by sharing an experience running a software security course for the eleventh time. Through all the eleven years of running the software security course, the course objectives have been comprehensive - ranging from security testing, to secure design and coding, to security requirements to security risk management. For the first time in this eleventh year, a theme of the course assignments was to map vulnerability discovery to the security controls of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS). Based upon student performance on a final exploratory penetration testing project, this mapping may have increased students’ depth of understanding of a wider range of security topics. The students efficiently detected 191 unique and verified vulnerabilities of 28 different Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) types during a three-hour period in the OpenMRS project, an electronic health record application in active use.
Wed 26 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
20:40 - 21:40 | 2.2. Institutional Strategies to SE Education IJSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training at JSEET Room +12h Chair(s): Hakan Erdogmus Carnegie Mellon University | ||
20:40 20mExperience report | Structuring a Comprehensive Software Security Course Around the OWASP Application Security Verification StandardJSEET JSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training Sarah Elder North Carolina State University, Nusrat Zahan North Carolina State University, Val Kozarev North Carolina State University, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University, Rui Shu North Carolina State University, Laurie Williams North Carolina State University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
21:00 20mExperience report | Exponential Competence of Computer Science and Software Engineering Undergraduate StudentsJSEET JSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training Orit Hazzan Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
21:20 20mShort-paper | "Is My Mic On?" Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team CommunicationJSEET JSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training Makayla Moster Clemson University, Denae Ford Microsoft Research, Paige Rodeghero Clemson University Pre-print Media Attached |
Thu 27 MayDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
08:40 - 09:40 | 2.2. Institutional Strategies to SE Education IJSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training at JSEET Room | ||
08:40 20mExperience report | Structuring a Comprehensive Software Security Course Around the OWASP Application Security Verification StandardJSEET JSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training Sarah Elder North Carolina State University, Nusrat Zahan North Carolina State University, Val Kozarev North Carolina State University, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University, Rui Shu North Carolina State University, Laurie Williams North Carolina State University Pre-print Media Attached | ||
09:00 20mExperience report | Exponential Competence of Computer Science and Software Engineering Undergraduate StudentsJSEET JSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training Orit Hazzan Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
09:20 20mShort-paper | "Is My Mic On?" Preparing SE Students for Collaborative Remote Work and Hybrid Team CommunicationJSEET JSEET - Joint Track on Software Engineering Education and Training Makayla Moster Clemson University, Denae Ford Microsoft Research, Paige Rodeghero Clemson University Pre-print Media Attached |