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Applications and systems are the technologies closest to the data we are trying to protect. This domain details how applications and systems are structured, what security mechanisms and strategies are commonly used to secure data during access, processing and storage; it also presents some of the common threats and countermeasures.

The following are a few of the topics that are covered in this domain:

• System development process: The models, methods, life cycle phases, and management of the development process.
• Database systems: Models, management systems, query languages, components, data warehousing and mining, schema and security measures.
• Application development methodology: Software architecture, programming languages and concepts, change control methods, improvement models, data modeling and structures, data interface and exchange methods, artificial neural networks and expert systems.
• Security threats and countermeasures: Common threats to applications and systems and how expert systems and artificial neural networks can be applied to mitigate threats.