Systems
Systems security
Memory-safety bugs, privilege separation and web attacks, and how real systems defend against them.
About 30 hours of study.
Where to learn it
Read
Security Engineering, 3rd edition
Ross Anderson
The free chapters
Several chapters are free to read on the author's site.
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Watch
Computer Systems Security (MIT 6.858)
Nickolai Zeldovich, James Mickens
Lectures on buffer overflows, privilege separation and web security
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Practise
picoCTF
Carnegie Mellon University
picoGym: Binary Exploitation, then Reverse Engineering
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Which roles ask for it
- DevOps / site reliability engineer good to have
- Platform engineer good to have
- System administrator good to have
- Penetration tester in the first year
- Security engineer to get hired
- Cloud engineer good to have
- Security analyst (SOC) in the first year
Before and after
Systems security
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