Germany to Offer Schools for Security Experts

Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences from Germany and Codenomicon, a company that develops security and quality testing software, have recently signed an agreement that will result in educational opportunities for future IT professionals.

After Australia and Pakistan, another country prepares to counterattack the potential threats that might be coming from the internet, thus students from the Security management program will have the opportunity to work with Codenomicon's Defensics software to learn how to deal with such menaces.

"Information technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, complicated and as a result, more vulnerable.We want to help training the future information security professionals to meet the challenge they are up against," revealed Anton von Troyer, vice president DACH from Codenomicon.

Codenomicon's Defensics test tool deploys special techniques that allow for an efficient detection rate of zero-day vulnerabilities. The mechanism relies on so-called fuzz testing, where an invalid or unexpected data set is input to the system to reveal potential weaknesses.

"It is a fertile cooperation for both sides. Beside the use of the softwarevin teaching, possible innovations in the context of product use are examined together," says Prof. Sachar Paulus from FH Brandenburg.

Enterprises are currently aware of the major risks imposed by zero-day vulnerabilities and by combining the students' knowledge with the proper pieces of software, they hope to obtain professionals that will be able to handle any type of virtual threat.

Codenomicon's Unknown Vulnerability Management (UVM) is designed to make sure that the exploitable areas are not only detected, but also patched before any real harm might occur.

More people come to realize that the future of wars doesn't lie anymore in sophisticated armament and heavy machinery, instead, computing power and knowledge are the ones that will drive the real battles. Missile protection systems will soon become obsolete, their places being taken over by efficient computer programs that can stop any cyberattack.