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Moving the burden of security from customers to Northstar Systems' products: the eight-arc secure-by-design loop of principles, secure defaults, memory safety, paved roads, threat modeling, transparency, vulnerability-class elimination and measure-and-commit; 43 closed tickets regrouped by CWE so that 19 SQL injection, 11 cross-site scripting and 6 path traversal findings are each closed as a whole class at the root; and bolted-on habits replaced by design — no factory password, MFA on by default instead of an opt-in under 4% used, a loosening guide instead of an 80-page hardening guide, and attested class elimination instead of a count of fixes.
CY-SENIOR-056Senior Level · Secure-by-Design Strategy

Secure-by-Design Product Strategy — The Secure-by-Design Loop

A senior-level strategy course that shifts the burden of security from customers to the product itself, at the company level. Work the secure-by-design loop across eight arcs - Principles, Secure Defaults, Memory Safety & Language Choice, Paved Roads, Threat Modeling at Scale, Customer Transparency, Vulnerability Class Elimination, and Measure & Commit - pairing BY DESIGN against BOLTED ON, with real default-configuration checks, memory-safety and language-inventory queries, paved-road adoption metrics, threat-modeling tooling, SBOM and advisory publishing, and CWE-class elimination tracking. Four hands-on activities in every lesson.

15 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

  • State and defend the principle that the vendor owns customer security outcomes, and turn it into a measurable, executive-owned pledge.
  • Ship secure defaults - no default passwords, MFA on, logging on, least privilege - and replace hardening guides with loosening guides.
  • Build a paved road of shared, secure building blocks that product teams adopt because it is easier, not because it is mandated.
  • Use vulnerability data to eliminate whole CWE classes at their structural root, and track classes eliminated as a strategy metric.

Price:৳10,000
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