June 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm (GMT+1) Price 49 USD Registration
This training course is an extended version of the best-selling Practical Foundations of Windows Debugging, Disassembling, Reversing, Second Edition book which drew inspiration from the original lectures we developed more than 20 years ago to train support and escalation engineers in debugging and crash dump analysis of memory dumps from Windows applications, services, and systems. When thinking about what material to deliver, we realized that a solid understanding of fundamentals like pointers is needed to analyze stack traces beyond a few WinDbg commands. Therefore, this book was not about bugs or debugging techniques but about the background knowledge everyone needs to start experimenting with WinDbg, learn from practical experience, and read other advanced debugging books. This body of knowledge is what the author of this book possessed before starting memory dump analysis using WinDbg almost 22 years ago, which resulted in the number one debugging bestseller: the multi-volume Memory Dump Analysis Anthology (Diagnomicon). Now, in retrospection, we see these practical foundations as relevant and necessary to acquire for beginners as they were 20 years ago because operating systems internals, assembly language, and compiler architecture haven't changed much in those years.
Although the previous version of the book includes x86 chapters because many 3rd-party Windows applications were still 32-bit and executed in 32-bit compatibility mode on x64 Windows systems at the time of its writing, the new course is entirely x64. If you are still interested in x86, the previous edition is still available and valid.
Please see the previous book's TOC (x64 chapters) for the approximate content.
This new course edition also contains additional relevant CPU instructions and the basics of floating point and SIMD operations.
Before the training, you get:
- Practical Foundations of Windows Debugging, Disassembling, Reversing, Second Edition PDF book (+300 pages)
- Access to Software Diagnostics Library with more than 440 cross-referenced patterns of memory dump analysis, their classification, and more than 70 case studies
After the training, you also get:
- The new 3rd PDF book edition
- Personalized Certificate of Attendance with unique CID
- Answers to questions during training sessions
- Training sessions recording
Audience:
- Software technical support and escalation engineers
- Software engineers coming from managed code or JVM background
- Software testers
- Engineers coming from non-Wintel environments
- Windows C and C++ software engineers without an assembly language background
- Security researchers without x86/x64 assembly language background
- Beginners learning Windows software reverse engineering techniques
This introductory training course can complement the more advanced Accelerated Disassembly, Reconstruction, and Reversing course. It may also help with advanced exercises in Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Accelerated Rust Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Accelerated Windows Debugging4, Accelerated Windows API for Software Diagnostics, Accelerated Windows Malware Analysis with Memory Dumps, and Memory Thinking books for C and C++.
Alternatively, you can pay directly, and we will send registration approval in 24 hours.