Web and Cloud Based Security

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Perform a security assessment for an organisation as part of a team
• Use examples of security penetration testing tools
• Secure development of web applications

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically analyse Web and Cloud based systems for security problems
• Critically analyse Web based systems for security problems
• Recognise and discuss examples of cyber security vulnerabilities

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate effectively on a broad range of issues with security professionals

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The core technical elements of web and cloud based security systems
• The current trends in cyber security; threats, their importance, and why they are hard to face
• Cyber security frameworks, standards and best practices, and how to apply these within an organisation

Web based security

• Web applications and systems

• Penetration testing
• OWASP
• Vulnerabilities and exploitation
• Security of database applications
• Injection attacks, cross-site scripting - Server configuration


Cloud based security

• Virtualisation - hypervisor security and data protection
• Cloud services – vulnerabilities and protection
• Secure designs for cloud architecture
• Standards, governance and compliance for cloud based infrastructures

Secure web development :

• client-side and server-side protection
• protecting against injection attacks
• implementing authentication and access control
• techniques for ensuring data privacy
• cross-site scripting
• guarding against third-party component vulnerabilities - building a secure API

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Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.