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This page provides helpful information about many coursework units offered by Computer Science and Software Engineering in 2024.

The information here is not official - for official information please see the current UWA Handbook. Instead, it will help students to prepare for their future units, before the beginning of each semester, and before they have access to UWA's Learning Management System (LMS).

About the unit CITS3007 Secure Coding (1st semester 2024)

View the UWA Handbook entry (includes unit outcomes and prerequisites)

Unit coordinator:

Arran Stewart
[email protected]

Unit homepage:

https://cits3007.github.io

Unit is offered in these majors and courses:

Indicative weekly topics:

week 1	Unit info, security concepts
week 2	Memory and arithmetic introduction
week 3	Memory and arithmetic errors
week 4	Inter-process communication (IPC) introduction
week 5	Input validation and IPC security
week 6	Concurrency and resources introduction
week 7	Race conditions and secure file operations
week 8	Cryptography introduction
week 9	Cryptography best practices
week 10	Secure software development introduction
week 11	Secure development best practices
week 12	Review

Indicative assessment:

quiz, mid-semester test, project, final exam

Useful prior experience and background knowledge:

Familiarity with operating systems concepts

Useful prior programming and software experience:

Familiarity with the C language (specifically, the C11 standard)

Hardware required for this unit:

Students are able to undertake their laboratory exercises and projects in laboratories in the CSSE building, but most students also complete work on their own laptops.
The following hardware is required to successfully complete this unit:

Laptop capable of running Virtualbox (see https://cits3007.github.io/faq/#linux-os)

Software required for this unit:

Students are able to undertake their laboratory exercises and projects in laboratories in the CSSE building, but most students also complete work on their own laptops.
The following software is required to successfully complete this unit:

Virtualbox+Vagrant (or: access to a Linux system)

Operating system(s) used in this unit:

Different units will use different operating systems for their teaching - for in-class examples, laboratory exercises, and programming projects.
If an operating system is REQUIRED, it will be used when marking assessments.

Linux (standard unit environment is: Ubuntu 20.04 running version 5.4.0 of the Linux kernel on an x86-64 processor). See https://cits3007.github.io/faq/#cits3007-sde

This information last updated 4:56pm Tue 20th Feb 2024

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