Information Security for Product Managers

Course Number: 49-775

Department: Information Networking Institute

Location: Silicon Valley

Units: 6

Semester Offered: Spring

This course equips product managers with essential skills to integrate security into the product lifecycle. Participants will explore key security principles, identify risks, and learn best practices for incorporating security considerations during planning, design, development, and maintenance. Through real-world case studies and hands-on exercises, this course empowers product managers to develop secure, user-friendly products while collaborating effectively with security teams. There will be guided hands-on coding to implement basic concepts. No prior coding experience is necessary. Some class sessions in this course may be offered using a Flipped Classroom model where lectures will be distributed as videos for viewing offline, and class sessions are dedicated to clarifications, content review, and course assignments. Priority registration given to III students. Note: the R section of this course is specifically reserved for students in the Part-Time Remote MSSM program.

Class format

Lecture and project-based

Home department

Integrated Innovation Institute

Syllabus

https://karimullashaikh.com/cmu/49-775/

Faculty and instructors who have taught this course in the past

Karimulla Shaikh