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Fuzzing (fuzz testing) tutorial: What it is and how can it improve application security?
2020-10-16 16:58

Dr. David Brumley, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of ForAllSecure, explains what Fuzzing is and how companies can use it to improve application security and speed up their software development life cycle.

Luckily, Dr. David Brumley, one of best in the digital security business, was kind enough to give me a fuzzing 101 lesson not too long ago, and I can share it with you.

In this exclusive TechRepublic cyber security lesson, Dr. Brumley explains what fuzzing is and how companies can use it to help improve both their application security processes and software development cycles.

So let me explain how fuzzing works and I'm going to use an analogy here.

Bill Detwiler: So how can companies get started using fuzzing as a technique and what are some of the actual fuzzers that are out there? Let's talk about that.


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