Stanford University Announces Online Computer Security Certificate Designing Secure Software From the Ground Up.STANFORD, Calif. -- The Stanford Center for Professional Development announced a new online computer security certificate to teach software architects, engineers, designers, and development teams how to build security into programs from the initial design phase as well as techniques to improve existing software. The program consists of three online courses, each course approximately two hours in length. Courses are self-paced and available at any time. "Security is a critical issue in today's computer systems. The Stanford Computer Security Certificate program will teach participants important techniques for building robust and dependable systems," says Hector Garcia-Molina Héctor García Molina (b. in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a computer scientist at Stanford University. He served at the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, as chairman of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University from , Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. at Stanford. Topics covered include buffer overflows, SQL-injection attacks, off-line dictionary attacks, authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , access control, data integrity, symmetric encryption Same as secret key cryptography. , public-key cryptography public-key cryptography - public-key encryption , and more. Detailed information about the program and courses is available at http://proed.stanford.edu/?security. "Computer science is a relatively young field and security has not been built into many of the academic degree programs and certifications currently available," says Neil Daswani, Stanford Ph.D. and course instructor. Dr. Daswani has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and managerial roles at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Communications Research, Inc. or Bellcore, is a telecommunications research and development (R&D) company based in the United States and created on January 1 1984 as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up ). He has published extensively and frequently gives talks in the areas of network security, wireless data technology, and peer-to-peer systems. He also holds two U.S. patents. The Stanford Center for Professional Development offers graduate degrees, credit courses, certificates and professional development courses to meet the career-long learning needs of engineers, scientists, technology professionals and managers. Courses are delivered via the Internet and local area broadcast as well as on campus. For more information visit http://scpd.stanford.edu. |
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