Code Review

In this 5 day course, students will learn how to discover bugs and vulnerabilities in C-based programs. We will look at current open source systems code and OS kernels (Linux and *BSD) as case studies and working examples.Specifically, students will: * Review components of the C programming language. * Learn about common C programming bugs. * Learn common APIs and interfaces in systems code and OS kernels prone to implementation bugs. * Look at previously discovered bugs as case studies. * Find bugs in sample code. * Be given the opportunity to find bugs in current systems code. For a detailed course outline look at this document. Format: Lectures and Labs Time: 9am – 5pm, Monday-Friday. Catering provided. Prerequisites: Competency in C programming. Courses have no more than 8 people. A minimum of 4 registrations are required for course to run. If less than 4 registrations are received, InfoSect will be in contact about refunding or rescheduling the course.