Collaboration with the Software Freedom Society on teaching Secure Coding Techniques
Greetings,
My name is Lucas Ramage, an online transfer student studying computer science. I work as a Cyber Security Consultant at CyberNinjas, and I am also a free software engineer. I maintain packages for Alpine Linux, Gentoo, OpenWrt, etc. and recently have begun maintaining PRoot, a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc.
I believe that security concepts should be implemented during all phases of the software development life cycle. I also believe that free and open source tends to be easier to securely maintain due to the nature of how it is developed.
I have received secure coding training, and have also attained my CompTia Security+. I have also been involved in free software development for seven years.
Last Summer, I attempted to step up and lead the Software Freedom Society at Liberty University, unfortunately, since I am an online student, I wasn't allowed to lead the club in an official capacity due to the policies in place at the school (See: https://software-freedom-society.gitlab.io/history).
I have been working on creating resources to teach students about free software but I haven't had much luck recruiting other students due to not having any connections on campus.
I just learned about this Cyber Defense Club from some magazine the school mailed to my house, and I immediately looked it up on the website which led me to here.
Links:
- https://software-freedom-society.gitlab.io
- https://mastodon.host/@SoftwareFreedomSociety
- https://gitlab.com/software-freedom-society
- https://gitter.im/software-freedom-society
Regards,