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Module 1: Foundations of system security engineering
- What system security engineering covers and how it differs from isolated product security work
- Security as a lifecycle concern across concept, design, implementation, deployment, operation, and retirement
- Core principles confidentiality, integrity, availability, resilience, and mission assurance
- Security engineering roles, stakeholders, and decision points in complex programs
Module 2: Security requirements and lifecycle traceability
- Deriving security requirements from mission needs, use cases, and stakeholder concerns
- Relating security requirements to system functions, interfaces, and dependencies
- Maintaining traceability from requirement to design, control, verification, and evidence
- Avoiding vague or non testable security requirements
Module 3: Threat modeling and attack oriented thinking
- Framing assets, actors, trust boundaries, and attack surfaces
- Using structured threat modeling approaches to reveal likely failure paths
- Connecting misuse cases and abuse scenarios to architecture decisions
- Prioritizing threats based on exposure, consequence, and feasibility
Module 4: Risk management for secure systems
- Distinguishing threats, vulnerabilities, consequences, and risk treatment options
- Relating risk analysis to engineering tradeoffs, architecture scope, and cost
- Choosing when to mitigate, transfer, accept, or redesign
- Integrating security risk thinking into lifecycle reviews and governance
Module 5: Secure architecture and trust boundary design
- Designing for least privilege, segmentation, isolation, and controlled interaction
- Identifying architectural trust boundaries and security responsibilities
- Reducing attack surface through interface discipline and service separation
- Linking architecture decisions to operational resilience and recovery needs
Module 6: Zero Trust and modern security patterns
- Zero Trust principles and what they mean in system design
- Identity, policy enforcement, and continuous verification as architectural elements
- Applying Zero Trust thinking across users, services, devices, and data flows
- Practical tradeoffs between usability, performance, complexity, and assurance
Module 7: Security controls and defense in depth
- Selecting preventive, detective, responsive, and recovery oriented controls
- Control layering across endpoints, networks, applications, platforms, and data
- Secure defaults, fail safe behavior, and graceful degradation patterns
- Mapping controls to threats, system elements, and operational context
Module 8: Resilience and dependable system behavior
- Designing systems that continue operating under fault, attack, or degraded conditions
- Redundancy, diversity, containment, and recovery as engineering tools
- Incident driven thinking for availability, continuity, and mission support
- Balancing security controls with reliability, maintainability, and safety concerns
Module 9: Verification and validation of security requirements
- Verifying that security requirements are testable and tied to architecture intent
- Choosing appropriate methods inspection, analysis, testing, and demonstration
- Relating verification activities to design assumptions and operational scenarios
- Organizing evidence so security claims remain clear and defensible
Module 10: Compliance and assurance frameworks
- Translating regulatory, policy, and standard requirements into system level activities
- Using compliance as a design input rather than a documentation exercise
- Aligning architecture decisions with auditability and assurance expectations
- Managing evidence, control ownership, and change impact over time
Module 11: Secure operations and lifecycle sustainment
- Security monitoring, logging, and telemetry as engineering considerations
- Managing patching, configuration drift, and system changes without weakening assurance
- Supporting incident response, forensic readiness, and secure recovery
- Planning for decommissioning, data disposition, and lifecycle end states
Module 12: Working method for real system security engineering
- Moving from stakeholder concern to requirement, threat, control, and verification in a structured sequence
- Coordinating architecture, security, compliance, and operations stakeholders
- Reviewing system packages for completeness, consistency, and decision usefulness
- Building a practical checklist for future system security engineering work
