secure application development course in Brussels

[Johan Peeters <yo () secappdev org>]

Solvay Business School, in partnership with Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven and L-Sec (Leuven Security Excellence Consortium), is running
an intensive secure application development course for experienced
software practitioners in Brussels, Belgium, from February 28th to March
4th 2005.

Leading world experts will teach this course, including
prof. dr. ir. Bart Preneel, who heads the world-leading crypto lab,
COSIC, at K.U. Leuven, prof. dr. ir. Frank Piessens, who teaches the
only secure software development university course in the lowlands at
K.U. Leuven, Ken van Wyk, author of the widely acclaimed O'Reilly book
"Secure Coding: Principles and Practices" and co-founder of CERT
Coordination Center, prof. dr. Konstantin Beznosov who teaches
computer security at the University of British Colombia and dr. Dirk
Dussart, a senior security auditor and architect.

The course focuses on secure software engineering principles and
techniques for countering threats and vulnerabilities in today's
target environments.

It provides participants with a thorough preparation for secure
application development.
Participants who complete the course will be able to:
   * Use mainstream security technologies,
   * Identify security related requirements,
   * Design secure application architectures,
   * Design cost-effective security features,
   * Avoid coding vulnerabilities,
   * Ascertain security qualities in existing applications.

In order to benefit optimally from the course, participants must have
a working knowledge of most of the following:
   * An unmanaged programming language such as C or C++;
   * A managed programming language such as Java or C#;
   * Key Internet applications such as mail, directory services,
     network file systems, remote procedure calls.

For further information and registration details, visit
http://www.secappdev.org.
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Johan Peeters
http://www.secappdev.org
+32 16 649000