secure application development course

[info at secappdev.org (Johan Peeters)]

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes an intensive secure application 
development course for experienced software practitioners, in 
partnership with Solvay Business School and L-Sec (Leuven Security 
Excellence Consortium) from February 20th to 24th 2006 in Leuven, Belgium.

The course is aimed at software architects, designers, developers, 
testers and technical project managers and is limited to 25 places for 
optimal interaction.Leading world experts teach this course, including 
prof. dr. ir. Bart Preneel, who heads COSIC, the renowned crypto lab, 
prof. dr. ir. Frank Piessens, who pioneered teaching secure software 
development at university level, Ken van Wyk, co-founder of CERT 
Coordination Center and author of the widely acclaimed O'Reilly book 
"Secure Coding: Principles and Practices" and Danny De Cock whose web 
site is recognized as the foremost repository of technical information 
on the Belgian eID card.

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.

-- 
Johan Peeters
program director
http://www.secappdev.org
+32 16 649000