Language-Based Security

Education facts

Code: DIT106

Modern attacks often succeed at circumventing standard security mechanisms. While operating-system security policies are low-level (such as access control policies, protecting particular files), many attacks are high-level, or application-level (such as email worms that pass by access controls pretending to be executed on behalf of a mailer application). Because applications are typically specified and implemented in programming languages, application-level security is a part of the more general area of language-based security. A direct benefit of language-based security is the ability to naturally express security policies and enforcement mechanisms using the techniques of the well-developed area of programming languages.

Entry requirements

- Bachelor´s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. - Completed 15 hec in programming. - Completed 7.5 hec in computer security. Applicants must prove knowledge of English: English 6/English level 2 or the equivalent level of an internationally recognized test, for example TOEFL, IELTS.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Language-Based Security

  University of Gothenburg

  GÖTEBORG

  Start date: 22 March 2027

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %