If you take a step back from some of the technical details of this course, and look at the big picture, you will realize that security is not a technical issue, but a business one. How is software security a business issue? Think about it this way, if you had to explain software security to an executive, you would not want to talk about secure methods or if statements. The best security professional is the one who is able to communicate across all groups with very limited "geek" speak.