Secure Design
If you like applying Secure Design, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignBeginnerNew
Threat-Model the Patient-Intake App for a Telemedicine Startup
Working only from the three materials provided — the system architecture overview, the patient-intake data-flow description, and the SOC 2 control-mapping table — produce a STRI…
- Threat Modeling
- STRIDE
- Risk Assessment
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement Authentication and Access Control for a Civic Portal
Receive the current Next.js + Express prototype, the data model (residents, requests, documents, audit log), and the 4 staff roles (resident, clerk, supervisor, auditor) with th…
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Rbac
Introduction to Computer Security - CodeSeniorNew
Reverse-Engineer and Patch an N-Day Vulnerability in a Vendor Binary
Receive the vulnerable binary (Linux ELF, x86-64), the public CVE-2025-XXXX advisory + PoC, and the bank's deployment context (RHEL 9, the binary runs as a non-root service). Lo…
- Reverse Engineering
- Binary Exploitation
- Ghidra
Computer Systems Security - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Confidential-Computing Architecture for a Genomics Workflow
Receive the workflow description (per-hospital genome BAM files uploaded to S3, processed by a variant-calling pipeline, results returned per-hospital), the partner-hospital leg…
- Confidential Computing
- Remote Attestation
- Secure Architectures
Computer Systems Security Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Propose a Cryptographic Target State for a Checkout Stack
Working solely from the four supplied materials — the stack architecture case file, the testssl.sh export corpus, the cryptographic configuration specification, and the best-pra…
- Cryptography
- Tls
- Pci Dss
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Threat Model a HealthTech Patient-Portal Web App
Read the 25-page redesign architecture document (auth via Clerk, Next.js front-end, FastAPI backend, Postgres, S3 for documents, webhook integration with EMRs). Build data-flow …
- Threat Modeling
- STRIDE
- Secure Design
Software Security - DesignIntermediateNew
Design Multi-Tenant Network Policies with Calico Tier Enforcement
Receive the cluster topology (120 customer namespaces + 4 platform namespaces), the application traffic patterns (frontend talks to backend talks to its tenant's database), and …
- Kubernetes
- Network Policy
- Calico
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Secure-by-Design Review of a Microservices Auth Subsystem
Read the 18-page proposed auth-service design (Next.js BFF, FastAPI auth-service, Postgres for sessions + refresh, Redis for short-lived tokens, integration with Auth0 for OIDC)…
- Secure Design
- OWASP Asvs
- Oauth2
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- CodeSeniorNew
Build a Kernel-Module Sandbox for an Untrusted Code Service
Receive the current Docker-based sandbox configuration, post-incident reports for both escapes, and the runtime requirements for Python and C++ (compilers, package availability,…
- Sandboxing
- Seccomp Bpf
- Gvisor
Computer Systems Security
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