Security By Design Essentials

This course empowers software architects, engineers, product managers, and security professionals to adopt a Secure-by-Design mindset, ensuring that security is treated not as an afterthought, but as a foundational design principle.

  • Course duration

    40 min

  • Chapters

    5

  • Difficulty

    Beginner

  • Cost

    Free of charge

  • Certification

    Included

  • Badge

    Included

    Learning Objective

    This course introduces the foundational mindset and practical techniques behind Security by Design (SbD)—an approach that empowers teams to integrate security from the very beginning of the software development lifecycle. Participants will explore the core philosophy of Secure-by-Design, learning how it complements secure coding, testing, and deployment by focusing on design-level security as a first-class concern.

    The course covers ten essential principles of secure architecture—such as least privilege, secure defaults, and defense in depth—explaining not just what they are, but how they shape resilient systems. Learners will also discover how threat modeling serves as a practical enabler of SbD, particularly when supported by automation.

    Using IriusRisk, participants will see how security design can be streamlined, scaled, and embedded into Agile and DevOps workflows. Whether building microservices, APIs, or enterprise applications, this course delivers the mindset, methods, and tools to help teams design secure software by intention, not reaction.

    Target Audience

    This course is designed for:
     • Software architects and engineers who want to integrate secure design practices into technical decision-making.
     • Product teams and technical leads responsible for ensuring security is considered from the outset of a project.
     • Security champions and DevSecOps professionals advocating for proactive risk mitigation during system design.
     • Development managers aiming to scale security practices across Agile teams and CI/CD pipelines.
     • Compliance and risk stakeholders supporting secure architecture as part of governance and assurance frameworks.

    Course Master

    Security should not be an afterthought. Threat modeling empowers teams to bake security into the design phase—making systems resilient by intent, not by accident.
    George Makrodimitris
    Head of Software Adoption / Course Master