Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals

Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals, course code CS0201EN, is an intermediate Cognitive Class course from IBM Skills Network with an estimated effort of 17 hours, taught in English, and the page says a certificate is offered. The course takes the developer's side of security: it starts with identifying vulnerabilities and monitoring the health of applications and systems, then moves to secure coding practices meant to stop data breaches and leaks, DevSecOps practices that automate security checks across the software development lifecycle, static application security testing for spotting flaws in code, and dynamic analysis and testing. A section on building a secure development environment covers both on-premises and cloud setups, and the OWASP top application security risks, including broken access control and SQL injection, are worked through.

The final part turns to monitoring, observability and evaluation: the components of a monitoring system, application performance monitoring tools, the Golden Signals, visualisation and logging tools, and metrics and alerting. Teaching is by video, hands-on labs, peer discussion and practice and graded assessments. Cognitive Class states that all its courses are free of charge; the course is also listed as part of IBM's DevOps and Software Engineering Professional Certificate, which is a separate, paid Coursera product not needed for this course.