Artificial intelligence tools are used selectively in this course to support content refinement and the creation of visual assets. AI-assisted tools help improve clarity, structure, and presentation of technical concepts, as well as generate illustrative diagrams and images. All technical architecture decisions, explanations, and learning objectives are designed, reviewed, and curated by the instructor to ensure accuracy, rigor, and real-world relevance.
Course Overview
Secure-by-Design and Secure-by-Default are no longer optional buzzwords—they are becoming baseline expectations built into laws, regulations, procurement contracts, and customer security questionnaires. This course gives you a strategic yet technically grounded roadmap for interpreting and implementing secure-by-design mandates across CISA (US), UK Secure-by-Design principles, and EU digital product security regimes such as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and NIS2.
Designed for technology and product decision-makers, SaaS founders, platform and product security teams, and vendor risk professionals, this course bridges the gap between policy and regulation on one side and governance, engineering, and third-party risk practices on the other.
What You Will Gain
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Interpret key secure-by-design and secure-by-default mandates from CISA, UK, and EU sources without needing to be a lawyer.
- Connect regulatory expectations to practical controls across product security, platform engineering, and vendor risk management.
- Prioritize investments and roadmap items that materially improve both compliance posture and real security outcomes.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders (boards, customers, auditors, regulators, vendors, and engineering teams) using a shared, practical language.
Key Learning Outcomes
Regulatory and Policy Clarity:
- Understand the core ideas behind CISA secure-by-design guidance and how they relate to software manufacturers and cloud services.
- Break down UK Secure-by-Design principles into actionable practices for SaaS and platform teams.
- Map EU requirements (CRA, NIS2, and adjacent expectations) to concrete technical and organizational measures.
From Mandate to Implementation:
- Translate high-level obligations into governance, architecture, and engineering decisions.
- Design or refine SDLC and DevSecOps practices to embody secure-by-design and secure-by-default expectations.
- Embed secure configuration and hardening into defaults rather than optional add-ons.
