Security by Design: A Complete Guide
You’re under pressure. Deadlines are tight, attack surfaces are growing, and the cost of a single breach could derail your project-or your entire career. You know reactive security is no longer enough, but turning that insight into real change feels like pushing uphill with no framework, no roadmap, and no mandate. Every day without a proactive strategy increases your risk. Yet every moment spent trying to retrofit security into existing systems drains resources and erodes stakeholder trust. The gap between where you are and where you need to be is widening-and you can't afford to guess your way through. Security by Design: A Complete Guide closes that gap. This isn't a theoretical overview. It’s a battle-tested, step-by-step methodology that transforms how you build systems from the ground up-ensuring resilience, compliance, and competitive advantage before a single line of code is written. Imagine walking into your next executive review with a fully articulated, board-ready security integration plan for a mission-critical project-developed in just 30 days. That’s exactly what Sarah Lin, Senior Systems Architect at a global fintech firm, achieved after applying this methodology. Her team cut third-party audit findings by 76% in one quarter and accelerated deployment timelines by 40%. This course is your blueprint to shift from being the person who responds to breaches to the leader who prevents them entirely. You’ll move from uncertain and overextended to funded, recognised, and future-proof. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced, On-Demand, Always Accessible
This course is designed for professionals like you-overbooked, accountable, and results-driven. There are no fixed schedules, mandatory sessions, or time zones to navigate. Enroll once and learn at your own pace, on your own terms. Most learners complete the core framework in under 15 hours and apply their first security-by-design assessment to an active project within 30 days. The fastest reported implementation-end-to-end, from concept to documented threat model-was completed in 11 days. Lifetime Access, Zero Obsolescence Risk
We update this course quarterly based on evolving standards, regulatory shifts, and real-world feedback from enterprise practitioners. Every update is included at no additional cost. Your access never expires. This is a permanent asset in your professional toolkit-available 24/7, globally, and fully optimised for mobile and tablet use. Guided Support When You Need It
Receive structured feedback and clarification directly from our certified security architecture advisors. Qualified learners can submit design reviews, threat model drafts, and policy templates for expert review. This is not passive learning-it’s applied mentorship built into the curriculum. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course and submitting your capstone project, you’ll receive a professionally formatted Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service-a globally recognised name in enterprise framework training used by Fortune 500 teams, government agencies, and leading consultancies. This credential is shareable on LinkedIn, verifiable via unique badge ID, and designed to signal strategic capability-not just technical compliance. No Hidden Fees. No Surprises.
The price you see is the price you pay-no recurring charges, no upsells, no hidden fees. One transparent investment covers full curriculum access, template library, future updates, and certificate issuance. We accept all major payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. 100% Risk-Free Enrollment: Satisfied or Refunded
We stand behind the real-world value of this course with an unconditional money-back guarantee. If you complete the first three modules and do not find actionable, career-relevant insights that improve your security integration process, simply request a refund. No forms, no delays, no questions asked. What Happens After Enrollment?
After enrollment, you’ll receive an automated confirmation email. Once your course materials are prepared and access is activated, a separate email with login instructions will be sent. This ensures all resources are verified and ready for immediate use. “Will This Work for Me?” - We Know the Doubts
Whether you’re a product manager translating security requirements to dev teams, a lead engineer designing microservices, or a compliance officer auditing system architectures, this course is structured to adapt to your role. You don’t need a background in penetration testing or cryptography to succeed. - This works even if you’ve never led a threat modeling session.
- This works even if your organisation resists “pre-development security overhead”.
- This works even if your primary responsibility isn’t security-but you’re expected to deliver secure systems anyway.
Our alumni include DevOps leads who’ve reduced CI/CD pipeline vulnerabilities by integrating threat modeling checkpoints, IT directors who’ve aligned legacy upgrades with NIST standards, and startup CTOs who’ve secured Series A funding with investor-ready security documentation-all using the exact frameworks taught here. You’re not buying information. You’re gaining a repeatable, defensible process that pays for itself the first time you prevent a critical design flaw.
Module 1: Foundations of Security by Design - Defining Security by Design: Core principles vs traditional approaches
- The cost of retrofitting security: Real-world breach case studies
- Historical shift from perimeter-based to embedded security models
- Key drivers: Regulatory mandates, customer trust, and board-level accountability
- Understanding the secure development lifecycle (SDL)
- Differentiating security by design from security through testing
- Identifying high-risk phases in system development where security fails
- The role of shared responsibility across product, engineering, and operations
- Establishing early warning indicators of insecure design patterns
- Mapping security ownership across cross-functional teams
Module 2: Core Principles and Strategic Frameworks - Principle of Least Privilege: Implementation across layers
- Fail-Safe Defaults: Ensuring secure states on initialization
- Economy of Mechanism: Simplicity as a security advantage
- Complete Mediation: Enforcing access checks on every call
- Open Design: Relying on secrecy vs transparent validation
- Separation of Privilege: Dual controls and conditional authorisation
- Least Common Mechanism: Minimising shared data pathways
- Psychological Acceptability: Usability without compromising security
- Applying Saltzer and Schroeder principles to modern architectures
- Mapping principles to cloud-native, API-driven, and edge systems
- Aligning with NIST SP 800-160 and ISO/IEC 15408 (Common Criteria)
- Integrating STRIDE threat categories into design decisions
- Mapping DREAD scoring to risk prioritisation workflows
- Adopting Zero Trust Architecture as a foundational design standard
- Using SABSA (Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture) for enterprise alignment
Module 3: Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment - Introduction to structured threat modeling
- Selecting the right threat modeling methodology for your context
- Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs): Creating visual representations of system flows
- Identifying trust boundaries in distributed systems
- Enumerating assets: Data, credentials, access tokens, configurations
- Threat identification using STRIDE per component and flow
- Ranking threats using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Developing mitigations for identified threats
- Integrating threat modeling into Agile sprint planning
- Automating threat model updates with CI/CD integrations
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool workflows
- Generating and interpreting actionable threat reports
- Conducting peer review sessions for threat models
- Documenting assumptions and unresolved risks
- Reporting threat modeling outcomes to non-technical stakeholders
- Tracking remediation status across development cycles
Module 4: Secure Architecture Patterns - Layered architecture with enforced access controls
- Microservices security: Service mesh and sidecar patterns
- API gateway security patterns: Rate limiting, authentication, logging
- Event-driven architecture: Securing message queues and event buses
- Serverless security: Function isolation and execution context
- Container security: Principle of minimal base images
- Immutable infrastructure: Eliminating runtime configuration drift
- Secure boot and chain of trust in embedded systems
- Cryptographic enclave usage in high-assurance systems
- Data segregation patterns across environments
- Secure default configuration management
- Designing for auditability and logging completeness
- Incorporating secure rollback and recovery pathways
- Designing resilient identity propagation in service chains
- Enforcing TLS everywhere: Internal and external communications
Module 5: Data Protection by Design - Classifying data: Public, internal, confidential, restricted
- Data minimisation: Collecting only what is strictly necessary
- Storage lifecycle: Secure creation, retention, and destruction
- Encryption at rest: Key management strategies (KMS, HSM)
- Encryption in transit: Protocol versions, cipher suite selection
- Tokenisation and data masking techniques
- Database activity monitoring integration points
- Designing for data portability and right to deletion (GDPR)
- Implementing differential privacy in data analytics
- Securing backups and snapshots
- Preventing accidental public exposure via misconfigured storage
- Designing searchable encryption schemes
- Secure data sharing across organisational boundaries
- Homomorphic encryption: Concepts and use-case boundaries
- Integrating data loss prevention (DLP) checks into design
- Designing audit trails for data access and modification
Module 6: Identity and Access Management Integration - Designing for single sign-on (SSO) compatibility
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) design patterns
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained policies
- Policy as Code: Defining access rules in declarative formats
- Identity federation: SAML, OIDC, and enterprise integration
- Service-to-service authentication: mTLS and SPIFFE/SPIRE
- OAuth 2.0 scopes and consent design considerations
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) integration points
- Designing for privileged access management (PAM)
- Session management: Token lifetime and refresh logic
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access provisioning
- Identity lifecycle alignment with HR systems
- Designing revocation pathways for terminated access
- Implementing break-glass emergency access securely
- Integrating identity context into logging and monitoring
Module 7: Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) Integration - Phases of the SDL: From concept to retirement
- Embedding security gates into CI/CD pipelines
- Establishing security requirements during project scoping
- Security design reviews: Checklists and evaluation criteria
- Integrating static application security testing (SAST)
- Integrating software composition analysis (SCA)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST) design implications
- Interactive application security testing (IAST) setup points
- Penetration testing readiness through proactive design
- Defining secure coding standards early in development
- Automated policy enforcement via pre-commit hooks
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation and usage
- Threat model integration into backlog grooming
- Security KPIs: Tracking vulnerability density and fix velocity
- Conducting post-release security retrospectives
- Designing decommissioning procedures with data sanitisation
Module 8: Cloud-Native Security Design - Shared responsibility model: Understanding provider vs customer duties
- Designing VPCs, subnets, and network ACLs for least access
- Cloud identity: IAM roles and policy scoping best practices
- Secure configuration of object storage (S3, Blob, GCS)
- Key management: Using cloud KMS vs customer-managed keys
- Serverless function permissions: Avoiding over-privileged roles
- Event source validation: Preventing unauthorized invocation
- Logging and monitoring: Enabling CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs
- Designing for compliance automation with AWS Config, Azure Policy
- Private access patterns: VPC endpoints and private links
- Multi-account strategy: Landing zones and organisational units
- Securing container registries and image pipelines
- Deploying with infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation
- Scanning IaC templates for security misconfigurations
- Designing for disaster recovery with encrypted backups
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in cloud environments
Module 9: Compliance by Design - GDPR: Privacy as a default in system architecture
- CCPA: Consumer rights and data flow transparency
- PCI DSS: Designing for cardholder data environments
- HIPAA: Safeguarding protected health information (PHI)
- SOC 2: Building trust services criteria into design
- FedRAMP: Federal cloud security requirements
- ISO 27001: Integrating security controls into development
- Building compliance dashboards into operational views
- Automating evidence collection points in system design
- Designing audit-ready logging and access trails
- Minimising scope through architectural segmentation
- Mapping regulatory requirements to technical controls
- Integrating compliance checks into sprint reviews
- Reporting compliance posture to legal and board levels
- Creating compliance impact assessments for new features
- Designing for continuous compliance monitoring
Module 10: Secure API and Web Service Design - REST API security: Authentication, rate limiting, input validation
- GraphQL: Avoiding query complexity attacks and batching risks
- gRPC security: TLS setup and method-level authorisation
- Webhook security: Signature validation and replay protection
- Designing for CORS security without over-permissioning
- Securing OpenAPI/Swagger documentation exposure
- Input sanitization at the API gateway level
- Output encoding to prevent XSS propagation
- HTTP security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- Versioning strategies that maintain backward compatibility
- API key lifecycle management and rotation
- Designing idempotent operations for audit integrity
- Monitoring for anomalous API usage patterns
- Throttling and quota design for denial-of-service protection
- Implementing request signing for integrity verification
- Exposing debug endpoints only in isolated environments
Module 11: Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Design - Software supply chain threats: Case studies and attack vectors
- Securing dependencies: Scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Verifying package provenance with Sigstore and SLSA
- Designing trust boundaries with third-party integrations
- Conducting security assessments of vendor APIs
- Enforcing contract-level security obligations
- Designing for graceful degradation when third parties fail
- Monitoring third-party services for anomalous behaviour
- Ensuring encryption of data shared with partners
- Implementing API gateways for controlled exposure
- Validating OAuth scopes granted to external applications
- Conducting periodic vendor reassessments
- Designing audit trails for data shared with third parties
- Establishing incident response coordination points
- Enforcing data minimisation in partner integrations
- Designing automated deprovisioning for terminated relationships
Module 12: Incident Preparedness by Design - Designing systems for rapid containment during breaches
- Fail-closed vs fail-open decision frameworks
- Implementing canary releases with quick rollback capability
- Designing circuit breakers for compromised components
- Integrating incident playbooks into system documentation
- Enabling forensic data collection without performance impact
- Preserving logs and telemetry during system failures
- Designing for security team access during emergencies
- Secure remote access pathways for incident responders
- Automated alerting based on threat model scenarios
- Designing breach notification workflows
- Integrating legal and communications teams into response plans
- Conducting incident simulation using design documentation
- Building post-incident review mechanisms into operations
- Architecting for zero-knowledge incident investigations
- Ensuring business continuity with geographic redundancy
Module 13: Usability and Adoption of Secure Designs - Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- Defining Security by Design: Core principles vs traditional approaches
- The cost of retrofitting security: Real-world breach case studies
- Historical shift from perimeter-based to embedded security models
- Key drivers: Regulatory mandates, customer trust, and board-level accountability
- Understanding the secure development lifecycle (SDL)
- Differentiating security by design from security through testing
- Identifying high-risk phases in system development where security fails
- The role of shared responsibility across product, engineering, and operations
- Establishing early warning indicators of insecure design patterns
- Mapping security ownership across cross-functional teams
Module 2: Core Principles and Strategic Frameworks - Principle of Least Privilege: Implementation across layers
- Fail-Safe Defaults: Ensuring secure states on initialization
- Economy of Mechanism: Simplicity as a security advantage
- Complete Mediation: Enforcing access checks on every call
- Open Design: Relying on secrecy vs transparent validation
- Separation of Privilege: Dual controls and conditional authorisation
- Least Common Mechanism: Minimising shared data pathways
- Psychological Acceptability: Usability without compromising security
- Applying Saltzer and Schroeder principles to modern architectures
- Mapping principles to cloud-native, API-driven, and edge systems
- Aligning with NIST SP 800-160 and ISO/IEC 15408 (Common Criteria)
- Integrating STRIDE threat categories into design decisions
- Mapping DREAD scoring to risk prioritisation workflows
- Adopting Zero Trust Architecture as a foundational design standard
- Using SABSA (Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture) for enterprise alignment
Module 3: Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment - Introduction to structured threat modeling
- Selecting the right threat modeling methodology for your context
- Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs): Creating visual representations of system flows
- Identifying trust boundaries in distributed systems
- Enumerating assets: Data, credentials, access tokens, configurations
- Threat identification using STRIDE per component and flow
- Ranking threats using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Developing mitigations for identified threats
- Integrating threat modeling into Agile sprint planning
- Automating threat model updates with CI/CD integrations
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool workflows
- Generating and interpreting actionable threat reports
- Conducting peer review sessions for threat models
- Documenting assumptions and unresolved risks
- Reporting threat modeling outcomes to non-technical stakeholders
- Tracking remediation status across development cycles
Module 4: Secure Architecture Patterns - Layered architecture with enforced access controls
- Microservices security: Service mesh and sidecar patterns
- API gateway security patterns: Rate limiting, authentication, logging
- Event-driven architecture: Securing message queues and event buses
- Serverless security: Function isolation and execution context
- Container security: Principle of minimal base images
- Immutable infrastructure: Eliminating runtime configuration drift
- Secure boot and chain of trust in embedded systems
- Cryptographic enclave usage in high-assurance systems
- Data segregation patterns across environments
- Secure default configuration management
- Designing for auditability and logging completeness
- Incorporating secure rollback and recovery pathways
- Designing resilient identity propagation in service chains
- Enforcing TLS everywhere: Internal and external communications
Module 5: Data Protection by Design - Classifying data: Public, internal, confidential, restricted
- Data minimisation: Collecting only what is strictly necessary
- Storage lifecycle: Secure creation, retention, and destruction
- Encryption at rest: Key management strategies (KMS, HSM)
- Encryption in transit: Protocol versions, cipher suite selection
- Tokenisation and data masking techniques
- Database activity monitoring integration points
- Designing for data portability and right to deletion (GDPR)
- Implementing differential privacy in data analytics
- Securing backups and snapshots
- Preventing accidental public exposure via misconfigured storage
- Designing searchable encryption schemes
- Secure data sharing across organisational boundaries
- Homomorphic encryption: Concepts and use-case boundaries
- Integrating data loss prevention (DLP) checks into design
- Designing audit trails for data access and modification
Module 6: Identity and Access Management Integration - Designing for single sign-on (SSO) compatibility
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) design patterns
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained policies
- Policy as Code: Defining access rules in declarative formats
- Identity federation: SAML, OIDC, and enterprise integration
- Service-to-service authentication: mTLS and SPIFFE/SPIRE
- OAuth 2.0 scopes and consent design considerations
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) integration points
- Designing for privileged access management (PAM)
- Session management: Token lifetime and refresh logic
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access provisioning
- Identity lifecycle alignment with HR systems
- Designing revocation pathways for terminated access
- Implementing break-glass emergency access securely
- Integrating identity context into logging and monitoring
Module 7: Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) Integration - Phases of the SDL: From concept to retirement
- Embedding security gates into CI/CD pipelines
- Establishing security requirements during project scoping
- Security design reviews: Checklists and evaluation criteria
- Integrating static application security testing (SAST)
- Integrating software composition analysis (SCA)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST) design implications
- Interactive application security testing (IAST) setup points
- Penetration testing readiness through proactive design
- Defining secure coding standards early in development
- Automated policy enforcement via pre-commit hooks
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation and usage
- Threat model integration into backlog grooming
- Security KPIs: Tracking vulnerability density and fix velocity
- Conducting post-release security retrospectives
- Designing decommissioning procedures with data sanitisation
Module 8: Cloud-Native Security Design - Shared responsibility model: Understanding provider vs customer duties
- Designing VPCs, subnets, and network ACLs for least access
- Cloud identity: IAM roles and policy scoping best practices
- Secure configuration of object storage (S3, Blob, GCS)
- Key management: Using cloud KMS vs customer-managed keys
- Serverless function permissions: Avoiding over-privileged roles
- Event source validation: Preventing unauthorized invocation
- Logging and monitoring: Enabling CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs
- Designing for compliance automation with AWS Config, Azure Policy
- Private access patterns: VPC endpoints and private links
- Multi-account strategy: Landing zones and organisational units
- Securing container registries and image pipelines
- Deploying with infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation
- Scanning IaC templates for security misconfigurations
- Designing for disaster recovery with encrypted backups
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in cloud environments
Module 9: Compliance by Design - GDPR: Privacy as a default in system architecture
- CCPA: Consumer rights and data flow transparency
- PCI DSS: Designing for cardholder data environments
- HIPAA: Safeguarding protected health information (PHI)
- SOC 2: Building trust services criteria into design
- FedRAMP: Federal cloud security requirements
- ISO 27001: Integrating security controls into development
- Building compliance dashboards into operational views
- Automating evidence collection points in system design
- Designing audit-ready logging and access trails
- Minimising scope through architectural segmentation
- Mapping regulatory requirements to technical controls
- Integrating compliance checks into sprint reviews
- Reporting compliance posture to legal and board levels
- Creating compliance impact assessments for new features
- Designing for continuous compliance monitoring
Module 10: Secure API and Web Service Design - REST API security: Authentication, rate limiting, input validation
- GraphQL: Avoiding query complexity attacks and batching risks
- gRPC security: TLS setup and method-level authorisation
- Webhook security: Signature validation and replay protection
- Designing for CORS security without over-permissioning
- Securing OpenAPI/Swagger documentation exposure
- Input sanitization at the API gateway level
- Output encoding to prevent XSS propagation
- HTTP security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- Versioning strategies that maintain backward compatibility
- API key lifecycle management and rotation
- Designing idempotent operations for audit integrity
- Monitoring for anomalous API usage patterns
- Throttling and quota design for denial-of-service protection
- Implementing request signing for integrity verification
- Exposing debug endpoints only in isolated environments
Module 11: Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Design - Software supply chain threats: Case studies and attack vectors
- Securing dependencies: Scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Verifying package provenance with Sigstore and SLSA
- Designing trust boundaries with third-party integrations
- Conducting security assessments of vendor APIs
- Enforcing contract-level security obligations
- Designing for graceful degradation when third parties fail
- Monitoring third-party services for anomalous behaviour
- Ensuring encryption of data shared with partners
- Implementing API gateways for controlled exposure
- Validating OAuth scopes granted to external applications
- Conducting periodic vendor reassessments
- Designing audit trails for data shared with third parties
- Establishing incident response coordination points
- Enforcing data minimisation in partner integrations
- Designing automated deprovisioning for terminated relationships
Module 12: Incident Preparedness by Design - Designing systems for rapid containment during breaches
- Fail-closed vs fail-open decision frameworks
- Implementing canary releases with quick rollback capability
- Designing circuit breakers for compromised components
- Integrating incident playbooks into system documentation
- Enabling forensic data collection without performance impact
- Preserving logs and telemetry during system failures
- Designing for security team access during emergencies
- Secure remote access pathways for incident responders
- Automated alerting based on threat model scenarios
- Designing breach notification workflows
- Integrating legal and communications teams into response plans
- Conducting incident simulation using design documentation
- Building post-incident review mechanisms into operations
- Architecting for zero-knowledge incident investigations
- Ensuring business continuity with geographic redundancy
Module 13: Usability and Adoption of Secure Designs - Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- Introduction to structured threat modeling
- Selecting the right threat modeling methodology for your context
- Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs): Creating visual representations of system flows
- Identifying trust boundaries in distributed systems
- Enumerating assets: Data, credentials, access tokens, configurations
- Threat identification using STRIDE per component and flow
- Ranking threats using DREAD or PASTA frameworks
- Developing mitigations for identified threats
- Integrating threat modeling into Agile sprint planning
- Automating threat model updates with CI/CD integrations
- Using Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool workflows
- Generating and interpreting actionable threat reports
- Conducting peer review sessions for threat models
- Documenting assumptions and unresolved risks
- Reporting threat modeling outcomes to non-technical stakeholders
- Tracking remediation status across development cycles
Module 4: Secure Architecture Patterns - Layered architecture with enforced access controls
- Microservices security: Service mesh and sidecar patterns
- API gateway security patterns: Rate limiting, authentication, logging
- Event-driven architecture: Securing message queues and event buses
- Serverless security: Function isolation and execution context
- Container security: Principle of minimal base images
- Immutable infrastructure: Eliminating runtime configuration drift
- Secure boot and chain of trust in embedded systems
- Cryptographic enclave usage in high-assurance systems
- Data segregation patterns across environments
- Secure default configuration management
- Designing for auditability and logging completeness
- Incorporating secure rollback and recovery pathways
- Designing resilient identity propagation in service chains
- Enforcing TLS everywhere: Internal and external communications
Module 5: Data Protection by Design - Classifying data: Public, internal, confidential, restricted
- Data minimisation: Collecting only what is strictly necessary
- Storage lifecycle: Secure creation, retention, and destruction
- Encryption at rest: Key management strategies (KMS, HSM)
- Encryption in transit: Protocol versions, cipher suite selection
- Tokenisation and data masking techniques
- Database activity monitoring integration points
- Designing for data portability and right to deletion (GDPR)
- Implementing differential privacy in data analytics
- Securing backups and snapshots
- Preventing accidental public exposure via misconfigured storage
- Designing searchable encryption schemes
- Secure data sharing across organisational boundaries
- Homomorphic encryption: Concepts and use-case boundaries
- Integrating data loss prevention (DLP) checks into design
- Designing audit trails for data access and modification
Module 6: Identity and Access Management Integration - Designing for single sign-on (SSO) compatibility
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) design patterns
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained policies
- Policy as Code: Defining access rules in declarative formats
- Identity federation: SAML, OIDC, and enterprise integration
- Service-to-service authentication: mTLS and SPIFFE/SPIRE
- OAuth 2.0 scopes and consent design considerations
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) integration points
- Designing for privileged access management (PAM)
- Session management: Token lifetime and refresh logic
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access provisioning
- Identity lifecycle alignment with HR systems
- Designing revocation pathways for terminated access
- Implementing break-glass emergency access securely
- Integrating identity context into logging and monitoring
Module 7: Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) Integration - Phases of the SDL: From concept to retirement
- Embedding security gates into CI/CD pipelines
- Establishing security requirements during project scoping
- Security design reviews: Checklists and evaluation criteria
- Integrating static application security testing (SAST)
- Integrating software composition analysis (SCA)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST) design implications
- Interactive application security testing (IAST) setup points
- Penetration testing readiness through proactive design
- Defining secure coding standards early in development
- Automated policy enforcement via pre-commit hooks
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation and usage
- Threat model integration into backlog grooming
- Security KPIs: Tracking vulnerability density and fix velocity
- Conducting post-release security retrospectives
- Designing decommissioning procedures with data sanitisation
Module 8: Cloud-Native Security Design - Shared responsibility model: Understanding provider vs customer duties
- Designing VPCs, subnets, and network ACLs for least access
- Cloud identity: IAM roles and policy scoping best practices
- Secure configuration of object storage (S3, Blob, GCS)
- Key management: Using cloud KMS vs customer-managed keys
- Serverless function permissions: Avoiding over-privileged roles
- Event source validation: Preventing unauthorized invocation
- Logging and monitoring: Enabling CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs
- Designing for compliance automation with AWS Config, Azure Policy
- Private access patterns: VPC endpoints and private links
- Multi-account strategy: Landing zones and organisational units
- Securing container registries and image pipelines
- Deploying with infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation
- Scanning IaC templates for security misconfigurations
- Designing for disaster recovery with encrypted backups
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in cloud environments
Module 9: Compliance by Design - GDPR: Privacy as a default in system architecture
- CCPA: Consumer rights and data flow transparency
- PCI DSS: Designing for cardholder data environments
- HIPAA: Safeguarding protected health information (PHI)
- SOC 2: Building trust services criteria into design
- FedRAMP: Federal cloud security requirements
- ISO 27001: Integrating security controls into development
- Building compliance dashboards into operational views
- Automating evidence collection points in system design
- Designing audit-ready logging and access trails
- Minimising scope through architectural segmentation
- Mapping regulatory requirements to technical controls
- Integrating compliance checks into sprint reviews
- Reporting compliance posture to legal and board levels
- Creating compliance impact assessments for new features
- Designing for continuous compliance monitoring
Module 10: Secure API and Web Service Design - REST API security: Authentication, rate limiting, input validation
- GraphQL: Avoiding query complexity attacks and batching risks
- gRPC security: TLS setup and method-level authorisation
- Webhook security: Signature validation and replay protection
- Designing for CORS security without over-permissioning
- Securing OpenAPI/Swagger documentation exposure
- Input sanitization at the API gateway level
- Output encoding to prevent XSS propagation
- HTTP security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- Versioning strategies that maintain backward compatibility
- API key lifecycle management and rotation
- Designing idempotent operations for audit integrity
- Monitoring for anomalous API usage patterns
- Throttling and quota design for denial-of-service protection
- Implementing request signing for integrity verification
- Exposing debug endpoints only in isolated environments
Module 11: Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Design - Software supply chain threats: Case studies and attack vectors
- Securing dependencies: Scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Verifying package provenance with Sigstore and SLSA
- Designing trust boundaries with third-party integrations
- Conducting security assessments of vendor APIs
- Enforcing contract-level security obligations
- Designing for graceful degradation when third parties fail
- Monitoring third-party services for anomalous behaviour
- Ensuring encryption of data shared with partners
- Implementing API gateways for controlled exposure
- Validating OAuth scopes granted to external applications
- Conducting periodic vendor reassessments
- Designing audit trails for data shared with third parties
- Establishing incident response coordination points
- Enforcing data minimisation in partner integrations
- Designing automated deprovisioning for terminated relationships
Module 12: Incident Preparedness by Design - Designing systems for rapid containment during breaches
- Fail-closed vs fail-open decision frameworks
- Implementing canary releases with quick rollback capability
- Designing circuit breakers for compromised components
- Integrating incident playbooks into system documentation
- Enabling forensic data collection without performance impact
- Preserving logs and telemetry during system failures
- Designing for security team access during emergencies
- Secure remote access pathways for incident responders
- Automated alerting based on threat model scenarios
- Designing breach notification workflows
- Integrating legal and communications teams into response plans
- Conducting incident simulation using design documentation
- Building post-incident review mechanisms into operations
- Architecting for zero-knowledge incident investigations
- Ensuring business continuity with geographic redundancy
Module 13: Usability and Adoption of Secure Designs - Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- Classifying data: Public, internal, confidential, restricted
- Data minimisation: Collecting only what is strictly necessary
- Storage lifecycle: Secure creation, retention, and destruction
- Encryption at rest: Key management strategies (KMS, HSM)
- Encryption in transit: Protocol versions, cipher suite selection
- Tokenisation and data masking techniques
- Database activity monitoring integration points
- Designing for data portability and right to deletion (GDPR)
- Implementing differential privacy in data analytics
- Securing backups and snapshots
- Preventing accidental public exposure via misconfigured storage
- Designing searchable encryption schemes
- Secure data sharing across organisational boundaries
- Homomorphic encryption: Concepts and use-case boundaries
- Integrating data loss prevention (DLP) checks into design
- Designing audit trails for data access and modification
Module 6: Identity and Access Management Integration - Designing for single sign-on (SSO) compatibility
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) design patterns
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for fine-grained policies
- Policy as Code: Defining access rules in declarative formats
- Identity federation: SAML, OIDC, and enterprise integration
- Service-to-service authentication: mTLS and SPIFFE/SPIRE
- OAuth 2.0 scopes and consent design considerations
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) integration points
- Designing for privileged access management (PAM)
- Session management: Token lifetime and refresh logic
- Just-in-Time (JIT) access provisioning
- Identity lifecycle alignment with HR systems
- Designing revocation pathways for terminated access
- Implementing break-glass emergency access securely
- Integrating identity context into logging and monitoring
Module 7: Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) Integration - Phases of the SDL: From concept to retirement
- Embedding security gates into CI/CD pipelines
- Establishing security requirements during project scoping
- Security design reviews: Checklists and evaluation criteria
- Integrating static application security testing (SAST)
- Integrating software composition analysis (SCA)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST) design implications
- Interactive application security testing (IAST) setup points
- Penetration testing readiness through proactive design
- Defining secure coding standards early in development
- Automated policy enforcement via pre-commit hooks
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation and usage
- Threat model integration into backlog grooming
- Security KPIs: Tracking vulnerability density and fix velocity
- Conducting post-release security retrospectives
- Designing decommissioning procedures with data sanitisation
Module 8: Cloud-Native Security Design - Shared responsibility model: Understanding provider vs customer duties
- Designing VPCs, subnets, and network ACLs for least access
- Cloud identity: IAM roles and policy scoping best practices
- Secure configuration of object storage (S3, Blob, GCS)
- Key management: Using cloud KMS vs customer-managed keys
- Serverless function permissions: Avoiding over-privileged roles
- Event source validation: Preventing unauthorized invocation
- Logging and monitoring: Enabling CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs
- Designing for compliance automation with AWS Config, Azure Policy
- Private access patterns: VPC endpoints and private links
- Multi-account strategy: Landing zones and organisational units
- Securing container registries and image pipelines
- Deploying with infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation
- Scanning IaC templates for security misconfigurations
- Designing for disaster recovery with encrypted backups
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in cloud environments
Module 9: Compliance by Design - GDPR: Privacy as a default in system architecture
- CCPA: Consumer rights and data flow transparency
- PCI DSS: Designing for cardholder data environments
- HIPAA: Safeguarding protected health information (PHI)
- SOC 2: Building trust services criteria into design
- FedRAMP: Federal cloud security requirements
- ISO 27001: Integrating security controls into development
- Building compliance dashboards into operational views
- Automating evidence collection points in system design
- Designing audit-ready logging and access trails
- Minimising scope through architectural segmentation
- Mapping regulatory requirements to technical controls
- Integrating compliance checks into sprint reviews
- Reporting compliance posture to legal and board levels
- Creating compliance impact assessments for new features
- Designing for continuous compliance monitoring
Module 10: Secure API and Web Service Design - REST API security: Authentication, rate limiting, input validation
- GraphQL: Avoiding query complexity attacks and batching risks
- gRPC security: TLS setup and method-level authorisation
- Webhook security: Signature validation and replay protection
- Designing for CORS security without over-permissioning
- Securing OpenAPI/Swagger documentation exposure
- Input sanitization at the API gateway level
- Output encoding to prevent XSS propagation
- HTTP security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- Versioning strategies that maintain backward compatibility
- API key lifecycle management and rotation
- Designing idempotent operations for audit integrity
- Monitoring for anomalous API usage patterns
- Throttling and quota design for denial-of-service protection
- Implementing request signing for integrity verification
- Exposing debug endpoints only in isolated environments
Module 11: Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Design - Software supply chain threats: Case studies and attack vectors
- Securing dependencies: Scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Verifying package provenance with Sigstore and SLSA
- Designing trust boundaries with third-party integrations
- Conducting security assessments of vendor APIs
- Enforcing contract-level security obligations
- Designing for graceful degradation when third parties fail
- Monitoring third-party services for anomalous behaviour
- Ensuring encryption of data shared with partners
- Implementing API gateways for controlled exposure
- Validating OAuth scopes granted to external applications
- Conducting periodic vendor reassessments
- Designing audit trails for data shared with third parties
- Establishing incident response coordination points
- Enforcing data minimisation in partner integrations
- Designing automated deprovisioning for terminated relationships
Module 12: Incident Preparedness by Design - Designing systems for rapid containment during breaches
- Fail-closed vs fail-open decision frameworks
- Implementing canary releases with quick rollback capability
- Designing circuit breakers for compromised components
- Integrating incident playbooks into system documentation
- Enabling forensic data collection without performance impact
- Preserving logs and telemetry during system failures
- Designing for security team access during emergencies
- Secure remote access pathways for incident responders
- Automated alerting based on threat model scenarios
- Designing breach notification workflows
- Integrating legal and communications teams into response plans
- Conducting incident simulation using design documentation
- Building post-incident review mechanisms into operations
- Architecting for zero-knowledge incident investigations
- Ensuring business continuity with geographic redundancy
Module 13: Usability and Adoption of Secure Designs - Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- Phases of the SDL: From concept to retirement
- Embedding security gates into CI/CD pipelines
- Establishing security requirements during project scoping
- Security design reviews: Checklists and evaluation criteria
- Integrating static application security testing (SAST)
- Integrating software composition analysis (SCA)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST) design implications
- Interactive application security testing (IAST) setup points
- Penetration testing readiness through proactive design
- Defining secure coding standards early in development
- Automated policy enforcement via pre-commit hooks
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation and usage
- Threat model integration into backlog grooming
- Security KPIs: Tracking vulnerability density and fix velocity
- Conducting post-release security retrospectives
- Designing decommissioning procedures with data sanitisation
Module 8: Cloud-Native Security Design - Shared responsibility model: Understanding provider vs customer duties
- Designing VPCs, subnets, and network ACLs for least access
- Cloud identity: IAM roles and policy scoping best practices
- Secure configuration of object storage (S3, Blob, GCS)
- Key management: Using cloud KMS vs customer-managed keys
- Serverless function permissions: Avoiding over-privileged roles
- Event source validation: Preventing unauthorized invocation
- Logging and monitoring: Enabling CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs
- Designing for compliance automation with AWS Config, Azure Policy
- Private access patterns: VPC endpoints and private links
- Multi-account strategy: Landing zones and organisational units
- Securing container registries and image pipelines
- Deploying with infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation
- Scanning IaC templates for security misconfigurations
- Designing for disaster recovery with encrypted backups
- Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) in cloud environments
Module 9: Compliance by Design - GDPR: Privacy as a default in system architecture
- CCPA: Consumer rights and data flow transparency
- PCI DSS: Designing for cardholder data environments
- HIPAA: Safeguarding protected health information (PHI)
- SOC 2: Building trust services criteria into design
- FedRAMP: Federal cloud security requirements
- ISO 27001: Integrating security controls into development
- Building compliance dashboards into operational views
- Automating evidence collection points in system design
- Designing audit-ready logging and access trails
- Minimising scope through architectural segmentation
- Mapping regulatory requirements to technical controls
- Integrating compliance checks into sprint reviews
- Reporting compliance posture to legal and board levels
- Creating compliance impact assessments for new features
- Designing for continuous compliance monitoring
Module 10: Secure API and Web Service Design - REST API security: Authentication, rate limiting, input validation
- GraphQL: Avoiding query complexity attacks and batching risks
- gRPC security: TLS setup and method-level authorisation
- Webhook security: Signature validation and replay protection
- Designing for CORS security without over-permissioning
- Securing OpenAPI/Swagger documentation exposure
- Input sanitization at the API gateway level
- Output encoding to prevent XSS propagation
- HTTP security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- Versioning strategies that maintain backward compatibility
- API key lifecycle management and rotation
- Designing idempotent operations for audit integrity
- Monitoring for anomalous API usage patterns
- Throttling and quota design for denial-of-service protection
- Implementing request signing for integrity verification
- Exposing debug endpoints only in isolated environments
Module 11: Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Design - Software supply chain threats: Case studies and attack vectors
- Securing dependencies: Scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Verifying package provenance with Sigstore and SLSA
- Designing trust boundaries with third-party integrations
- Conducting security assessments of vendor APIs
- Enforcing contract-level security obligations
- Designing for graceful degradation when third parties fail
- Monitoring third-party services for anomalous behaviour
- Ensuring encryption of data shared with partners
- Implementing API gateways for controlled exposure
- Validating OAuth scopes granted to external applications
- Conducting periodic vendor reassessments
- Designing audit trails for data shared with third parties
- Establishing incident response coordination points
- Enforcing data minimisation in partner integrations
- Designing automated deprovisioning for terminated relationships
Module 12: Incident Preparedness by Design - Designing systems for rapid containment during breaches
- Fail-closed vs fail-open decision frameworks
- Implementing canary releases with quick rollback capability
- Designing circuit breakers for compromised components
- Integrating incident playbooks into system documentation
- Enabling forensic data collection without performance impact
- Preserving logs and telemetry during system failures
- Designing for security team access during emergencies
- Secure remote access pathways for incident responders
- Automated alerting based on threat model scenarios
- Designing breach notification workflows
- Integrating legal and communications teams into response plans
- Conducting incident simulation using design documentation
- Building post-incident review mechanisms into operations
- Architecting for zero-knowledge incident investigations
- Ensuring business continuity with geographic redundancy
Module 13: Usability and Adoption of Secure Designs - Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- GDPR: Privacy as a default in system architecture
- CCPA: Consumer rights and data flow transparency
- PCI DSS: Designing for cardholder data environments
- HIPAA: Safeguarding protected health information (PHI)
- SOC 2: Building trust services criteria into design
- FedRAMP: Federal cloud security requirements
- ISO 27001: Integrating security controls into development
- Building compliance dashboards into operational views
- Automating evidence collection points in system design
- Designing audit-ready logging and access trails
- Minimising scope through architectural segmentation
- Mapping regulatory requirements to technical controls
- Integrating compliance checks into sprint reviews
- Reporting compliance posture to legal and board levels
- Creating compliance impact assessments for new features
- Designing for continuous compliance monitoring
Module 10: Secure API and Web Service Design - REST API security: Authentication, rate limiting, input validation
- GraphQL: Avoiding query complexity attacks and batching risks
- gRPC security: TLS setup and method-level authorisation
- Webhook security: Signature validation and replay protection
- Designing for CORS security without over-permissioning
- Securing OpenAPI/Swagger documentation exposure
- Input sanitization at the API gateway level
- Output encoding to prevent XSS propagation
- HTTP security headers: HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- Versioning strategies that maintain backward compatibility
- API key lifecycle management and rotation
- Designing idempotent operations for audit integrity
- Monitoring for anomalous API usage patterns
- Throttling and quota design for denial-of-service protection
- Implementing request signing for integrity verification
- Exposing debug endpoints only in isolated environments
Module 11: Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Design - Software supply chain threats: Case studies and attack vectors
- Securing dependencies: Scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Verifying package provenance with Sigstore and SLSA
- Designing trust boundaries with third-party integrations
- Conducting security assessments of vendor APIs
- Enforcing contract-level security obligations
- Designing for graceful degradation when third parties fail
- Monitoring third-party services for anomalous behaviour
- Ensuring encryption of data shared with partners
- Implementing API gateways for controlled exposure
- Validating OAuth scopes granted to external applications
- Conducting periodic vendor reassessments
- Designing audit trails for data shared with third parties
- Establishing incident response coordination points
- Enforcing data minimisation in partner integrations
- Designing automated deprovisioning for terminated relationships
Module 12: Incident Preparedness by Design - Designing systems for rapid containment during breaches
- Fail-closed vs fail-open decision frameworks
- Implementing canary releases with quick rollback capability
- Designing circuit breakers for compromised components
- Integrating incident playbooks into system documentation
- Enabling forensic data collection without performance impact
- Preserving logs and telemetry during system failures
- Designing for security team access during emergencies
- Secure remote access pathways for incident responders
- Automated alerting based on threat model scenarios
- Designing breach notification workflows
- Integrating legal and communications teams into response plans
- Conducting incident simulation using design documentation
- Building post-incident review mechanisms into operations
- Architecting for zero-knowledge incident investigations
- Ensuring business continuity with geographic redundancy
Module 13: Usability and Adoption of Secure Designs - Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- Software supply chain threats: Case studies and attack vectors
- Securing dependencies: Scanning for known vulnerabilities
- Verifying package provenance with Sigstore and SLSA
- Designing trust boundaries with third-party integrations
- Conducting security assessments of vendor APIs
- Enforcing contract-level security obligations
- Designing for graceful degradation when third parties fail
- Monitoring third-party services for anomalous behaviour
- Ensuring encryption of data shared with partners
- Implementing API gateways for controlled exposure
- Validating OAuth scopes granted to external applications
- Conducting periodic vendor reassessments
- Designing audit trails for data shared with third parties
- Establishing incident response coordination points
- Enforcing data minimisation in partner integrations
- Designing automated deprovisioning for terminated relationships
Module 12: Incident Preparedness by Design - Designing systems for rapid containment during breaches
- Fail-closed vs fail-open decision frameworks
- Implementing canary releases with quick rollback capability
- Designing circuit breakers for compromised components
- Integrating incident playbooks into system documentation
- Enabling forensic data collection without performance impact
- Preserving logs and telemetry during system failures
- Designing for security team access during emergencies
- Secure remote access pathways for incident responders
- Automated alerting based on threat model scenarios
- Designing breach notification workflows
- Integrating legal and communications teams into response plans
- Conducting incident simulation using design documentation
- Building post-incident review mechanisms into operations
- Architecting for zero-knowledge incident investigations
- Ensuring business continuity with geographic redundancy
Module 13: Usability and Adoption of Secure Designs - Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- Overcoming developer resistance to security overhead
- Integrating security into familiar development tools
- Providing inline feedback in IDEs and CI pipelines
- Designing intuitive security configuration defaults
- Reducing cognitive load in secure workflows
- Creating guided onboarding for secure patterns
- Building self-service security tools for developers
- Documenting secure usage patterns with real examples
- Establishing communities of practice for knowledge sharing
- Integrating security training into developer onboarding
- Recognising and rewarding secure design contributions
- Reducing friction in policy compliance processes
- Designing for auditability without burdening users
- Creating templates and starter kits for secure projects
- Measuring adoption through secure pattern usage metrics
Module 14: Advanced Threat Resistance Patterns - Designing for side-channel resistance in cryptographic systems
- Memory-safe architecture patterns to prevent buffer overflows
- Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) compatibility
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP) integration
- Control Flow Integrity (CFI) in compiled components
- Secure enclave usage: Intel SGX, ARM TrustZone
- Hardware security modules (HSMs) in key operations
- Designing anti-tampering mechanisms for firmware
- Immutable logging with cryptographic sealing
- Rate limiting and account lockout without denial-of-service
- Designing for resistance to credential stuffing and brute force
- Protecting against second-order injection attacks
- Secure random number generation sources
- Time-based one-time password (TOTP) integration points
- Designing for cryptographic agility and algorithm rotation
- Post-quantum cryptography readiness planning
Module 15: Organisational Scaling and Governance - Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams
Module 16: Capstone Project and Certification - Capstone objective: Apply Security by Design to a real or simulated project
- Selecting a target system: New development or legacy modernisation
- Conducting an initial security posture assessment
- Building a data flow diagram for the selected system
- Identifying trust boundaries and critical assets
- Applying STRIDE to each data flow and component
- Prioritising threats using DREAD or custom scoring
- Designing mitigations for top five risks
- Documenting secure architecture decisions
- Creating a secure development checklist for implementation
- Integrating security gates into CI/CD pipeline design
- Designing for compliance with one major regulation
- Producing a board-ready executive summary
- Submitting your project for assessment
- Receiving expert feedback and finalising documentation
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Accessing career advancement resources and alumni network
- Sharing your achievement with verified digital badge
- Adding your project to your professional portfolio
- Receiving guidance on next-level certifications and specialisations
- Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Secure Design
- Defining security champions programs across engineering teams
- Creating standard design patterns and reference architectures
- Developing approved technology stacks with security criteria
- Implementing architectural review boards (ARBs)
- Defining security gating criteria for project funding
- Tracking security debt alongside technical debt
- Measuring secure design maturity across teams
- Integrating security metrics into executive dashboards
- Conducting design pattern audits and compliance reviews
- Creating security design templates for common use cases
- Onboarding new teams with standardised training
- Sharing anonymised threat models across business units
- Establishing feedback loops from operations to design
- Aligning security leadership with product roadmaps
- Developing security SLAs for internal development teams