When Software Engineering meets Cybersecurity at the classroom

Software Engineering is a foundation on modern computer systems development. This discipline is offered by the large branch of related university degrees these days around the world, among with other computer science courses. As we all know, cybersecurity problems are mostly related with software, for example bad implementations, poor quality achieved, lack of testing. Overall the bigger problem is lack of security planification since the inception and designing of the project. Cybersecurity had gained a lot of attention in recent years. From everyday desktop software been exploited, such as browser exploits and Windows RDP protocol exploits, to abusing Internet of Things to create massive botnets capable to disrupt the Internet service, the case of Mirai in 2017 as an example. We believe that if security played a basic role from the inception of the software project, much of this incidents could be prevented. So, we are proposing to introduce cybersecurity basics in the software engineering courses to raise the awareness of this problems to future professional software engineers.