Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Analysis - 695.744

Have you ever wondered why software vulnerabilities lead to security issues? Or how malicious actors exploit vulnerabilities? The Reverse Engineering course will help answer these questions and more! Throughout the course, students will use industry standard tools and develop customized solutions to help further binary/code analysis. Using real-world vulnerability classes, students will examine how attackers identify flaws in modern software and exploit these flaws bypassing state-of-the-art protection mechanisms found in modern operating systems. Students will also identify how to patch these issues and develop extensions of protection mechanisms to thwart attacks, raising the bar for the attacker and improving the security posture of a system. Using a combination of static analysis, dynamic analysis, fault injection and fuzzing, this course will provide students with the modern skills needed to help stop attackers!Prerequisite(s): Familiarity with computer architecture concepts.