How To Cyber Security: Software Testing Is Cool
Jul 03, 2020
4 minutes
Text contributed by Jonathan Knudsen,
Senior Security Strategist,
Synopsys Software Integrity Group
“FUZZING IS A GREAT WAY TO LOCATE UNKNOWN VULNERABILITIES IN AN APPLICATION. IF YOU FIND THEM AND FIX THEM BEFORE BAD PEOPLE FIND THEM AND EXPLOIT THEM, YOU SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCE YOUR RISK.”
That is a title I never expected to write. My father was a developer, and I was sure I would follow in his footsteps. For 34 years, he wrote C and C++ code for Bell Labs. At home we had first a TRS-80, then a Commodore 64 upon which I learned the fundamentals of programming.
I love the open-ended creativity of programming, the idea that you start with an empty editor window and breathe life into an application, line by
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