Year 11 Computer Science ATAR: Secure and responsible software development
Students learn the developer practices, standards and legal duties that keep software secure and lawful, including privacy by design, secrets management, code review, patching, the ISM, copyright and licensing.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Cyber Security journey. All 12 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (12)
1
Privacy by design for a student solution
2
Development, testing and production environments
3
Hard-coded API keys and secrets
4
Managing secrets outside source code
5
Peer code review process
6
Patch management
7
Information Security Manual (ISM)
8
ISM guideline: encryption
9
Intellectual property in software you write
10
Software licences and open-source code
11
Ethical issue: copyright when using third-party and AI-generated code
12
Legal and ethical consequences of ineffective software development practices
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