D3853 CUsActive

Software Security and Testing

School of Technology

About This Course

WGU Catalog 2026-03
This course prepares you to recognize security vulnerabilities in software, to plan interventions to address security vulnerabilities where they exist, and to develop and test these interventions. The course covers topics in Web security, permissions, and identity security; debugging; log file analysis; API security; and encryption and cryptography concepts.

Official catalog text — WGU-authored.

First in catalog2023-01StatusActiveCurrent degrees4Total degree appearances6

Included in Current Degrees (4)

Previously Appeared in Retired Degrees (2)

  • Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering [BSSWE]from 2023-01
  • Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering [BSSWE_C]from 2023-01