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Client brief, authorisation and team roles
Explain, demonstrate and verify **client brief, authorisation and team roles** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Client brief, authorisation and team roles60 min
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SWE-310Advanced
Software development
Secure Software Engineering
Apply security throughout requirements, design, coding, testing and deployment rather than adding it at the end.
Part of these pathways
Course outline: enrolment opens after THNF content and assessment review.
What you will be able to do
Clear outcomes. Practical evidence.
- Write security requirements
- Model threats and trust boundaries
- Prevent common application flaws
- Build a secure delivery checklist
Course structure
Modules and lessons
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Architecture, assets and threat model
Explain, demonstrate and verify **architecture, assets and threat model** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Architecture, assets and threat model60 min
03
Secure build and baseline validation
Explain, demonstrate and verify **secure build and baseline validation** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Secure build and baseline validation60 min
04
Monitoring and detection deployment
Explain, demonstrate and verify **monitoring and detection deployment** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Monitoring and detection deployment60 min
05
Vulnerability assessment and remediation
Explain, demonstrate and verify **vulnerability assessment and remediation** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Vulnerability assessment and remediation60 min
06
Incident simulation and forensic response
Explain, demonstrate and verify **incident simulation and forensic response** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Incident simulation and forensic response60 min
07
Executive and technical reporting
Explain, demonstrate and verify **executive and technical reporting** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Executive and technical reporting60 min
08
Portfolio defence and service handover
Explain, demonstrate and verify **portfolio defence and service handover** using an authorised lab and a realistic Sierra Leone scenario.
- Portfolio defence and service handover60 min
Access and progression
Know what the course requires.
The required capability matters; the learner does not have to personally own every device.
Who it is for
Aspiring developers, technical learners, career changers and practitioners seeking applied computing skills.
Hardware access
Personal 64-bit computer with 8 GB RAM and 60 GB free, or use the managed lab device at a readiness-approved THNF centre.
Software and practical access
Course software is available through the text-first pack, an approved offline installer or a readiness-approved THNF centre.
Possible progression
Junior development, data, web, application-support or technical-project progression appropriate to the completed portfolio.
Progression is not a guarantee of employment or external certification.Sierra Leone context
Mobile-first, low-data solutions for Sierra Leonean schools, traders, transport, agriculture, NGOs and SMEs using synthetic local names, districts and NLe values.
Skills in context
Career directions and next steps
These are realistic directions that the skills can support—not promises of employment, job titles or external certification.
- Junior front-end developer
- Web-content assistant
- Freelance website builder
- Junior software developer
- Application-support assistant
- Software-testing assistant
- Cybersecurity-support trainee
- Security-operations trainee
- Vulnerability-management assistant
Possible progression pathways
Beginner to intermediate web developer · Programming and software engineering · Cybersecurity