OGF21 Schedule
The 21st Open Grid Forum - OGF21
October 15-19, 2007
Seattle Washington, USA

Thursday, October 18
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
Vulnerability Assessment and Secure Coding Practices for Middleware Tutorial (2/2) (90 mins)
James A. Kupsch
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Security is crucial in the software that we develop and use. This tutorial is relevant to anyone wanting to learn about assessing software for security flaws and for developers wishing to minimize security flaws in software they develop.

We share our experience in vulnerability assessment of grid middleware. You will learn skills critical for developers and analysts concerned about software security, and the importance of independent vulnerability assessment.

The first session of this tutorial covers a process to actively discover vulnerabilities. We show how to gather information about a system and how to use this to direct the search for vulnerabilities, and how to integrate this into the development cycle.

The second session of this tutorial examines coding practices to prevent vulnerabilities by describing more than many types of vulnerabilities with examples of how they commonly arise, and techniques to prevent them. Most examples are in C, C++, Perl, and the standard C and POSIX APIs.



Location: Blewett
 
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