Senior Security Researcher Daniel Cuthbert examines why software safety still trails other industries and how history shows a path to building resilient digital infrastructure.
Digital infrastructure now underpins financial systems, critical services and global communications, yet software safety lags far behind other engineered industries. Transportation, manufacturing and energy evolved strict safety standards through hard-earned failures, but software development continues to tolerate preventable weaknesses that enable cybercrime, surveillance and systemic risk.
Historical incidents across industrial revolutions reveal a consistent pattern: durable progress follows accountability, standards and design discipline. Modern cybersecurity still prioritizes exploitation over resilience, rewarding defects rather than eliminating them. As artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems expand the blast radius of failure, treating software as safety-critical infrastructure has become a challenge.
This video lesson, taught by Daniel Cuthbert, senior security researcher, will cover:
- How memory safety and design discipline reduce exploit classes.
Here is the course outline:
Fueling the Future: Building Robust Engines for a Secure Digital World |
Completion
The following certificates are awarded when the course is completed:
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CPE Credit Certificate |
