Secure Application Development

Archive 2006

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 February 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. The first-rate instructors have wide-ranging experience in academia and industry, are experts in application security and are commited to interactive teaching.

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 application security in legacy software.
In order to benefit optimally from the course, participants will 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.
The course is taught in English.