secure application development course

[info at secappdev.org (Johan Peeters)]

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes an intensive course on secure 
application development for experienced software practitioners, in 
partnership with Solvay Business School and L-Sec (Leuven Security 
Excellence Consortium), from February 26th to March 2nd 2007.
The course is aimed at software architects, designers, developers, 
testers and technical project managers and is limited to 25 places for 
optimal interaction. The world class instructors have wide-ranging 
experience in academia and industry and are experts in application 
security. They include prof. Bart Preneel who heads COSIC, the renowned 
crypto lab, prof. Frank Piessens of K.U.L. who pioneered teaching 
application security at university level, Ken van Wyk, co-founder of the 
CERT Coordination Center, prof. Dan Wallach of Rice University who is 
well-known for his seminal work on the Java sandbox and Danny De Cock, a 
COSIC researcher, whose web site is 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 grounding in 
application security.

The course takes place in the Groot Begijnhof in Leuven, Belgium, a 
UNESCO World Heritage site.

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information visit the web site: http://secappdev.org.

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