Wave Issue 0511 3/18/05 Article 6-01

***Stanford University Announces Online Computer Security
Certificate Designing Secure Software From the Ground Up

STANFORD, Calif.
March 15, 2005

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.

Topics covered include buffer overflows, SQL-injection attacks,
off-line dictionary attacks, authentication, access control, data
integrity, symmetric encryption, public-key cryptography, and
more.

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.

Detailed information about the program and courses is available
at

proed.stanford.edu/?security