Since the start of the ICT-revolution, companies, organizations, private citizens, governments, and society at large have come to depend more and more on software. Today, software benefits many aspects of our private and public lives. At the same time, it is a key enabler of many business models.
Software can also be abused and weaponized in various ways, however, to disrupt private lives, business models, and society at large. There hence exists a strong need to defend (systems running) software against a range of attacks.
Doing so requires defensive software protection knowledge and skills, but also offensive training. After all, poachers make the best gamekeepers. Moreover, at the technical level, the required skills largely overlap: many technically neutral methods and tools can be used offensively as well as defensively, the difference solely depending on whether the targeted software is malware or goodware.
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