I am really looking forward to teaching at SecAppDev next month which is held each year in Leuven, Belgium. One of the great things about technology is working with people all over the world and seeing how different parts of the world approach solving problems. We have a great community of application security people in US that we see at conferences all over the country, but one of my favorite communities of security thinkers is in Belgium and SecAppDev features a great mix of teachers on the faculty.
Prof. dr. ir. Bart Preneel heads COSIC, the renowned crypto lab.
Ken van Wyk is co-founder of the CERT® Coordination Center and a widely acclaimed author and lecturer.
Dr. Lieven Desmet is a post-doctoral security researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Prof. dr. ir. Frank Piessens pioneered application security teaching at university level.
Prof. dr. Bart Jacobs is member of the 'Security: Programming Languages' task force of DistriNet.
Dr. ir. Claudia Diaz does post-doctoral research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies in the COSIC research group.
John Steven is a sought-after architect and technical lead for high-performance, scalable Java EE systems.
Prof. dr. Dan Wallach is the head of Rice University's computer security lab.
Gunnar Peterson focuses on distributed systems security for large mission critical systems.
Prof. dr. Dave Clarke is a professor at the Department of Computer Science of the K. U. Leuven.
Dr. Nelis Boucké researches distributed system architectures at K.U. Leuven.Prof.
Dr. Bart Van den Bosch is the CIO of Europe's largest teaching hospital.
The program includes two tracks with 3 or 4 classes per day per track, this means you get to drill down on a wide variety of different topics. I am teaching the following classes:
Audit Logging for applications
Android application security
Identity and Access management
Web services security
There are many other advanced topics covered, the mix of topics and people makes it a thorough look at Securing software from detailed design, architecture, development, and testing perspectives.
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