Secure Coding in C and C++ (SECC-CCPP)

Your application written in C and C++ works as intended, so you are done, right? But did you consider feeding in incorrect values? 16Gbs of data? A null? An apostrophe? Negative numbers, or specifi...

- Cyber security basics
- Buffer overflow
- Memory management hardening
- Common software security weaknesses
- Wrap up

- Getting familiar with essential cyber security concepts
- Identify vulnerabilities and their consequences
- Learn the security best practices in C and C++
- Input validation approaches and principles

C/C++ developers

DAY 1

Cyber security basics



- What is security?
- Threat and risk
- Cyber security threat types
- Consequences of insecure software

- Constraints and the market
- The dark side
Buffer overflow



- Assembly basics and calling conventions

- x64 assembly essentials
- Registers and addressing
- Most common instructions
- Calling conventions on x64

- Calling convention – what it is all about
- The stack frame
- Stacked function calls
- Memory management vulnerabilities

- Memory managemen...