Bristol Meetups

#FAIL - Lessons from infosec incidents by Robin Minto

Securing a web application is a challenge. The internet is awash with malicious traffic and web applications are globally accessible. Don’t make it easy for them and the baddies will move on and find someone else to annoy.

We’ll look at the risks facing web applications, the basic steps you can take so that you don’t make yourself a target and the things you should do to avoid becoming a data breach statistic. We’ll also look at lessons that can be learnt from mistakes that others have made.

We’ll demo some of the techniques and tools in both attack and defence with examples for any web application developer.

About Robin:

Robin is a developer/technical architect working for ByBox, a supply chain technology company in the UK.

He’s passionate about development, continuous improvement and all things security (he's a Certified Ethical Hacker). With one foot in Dev and another in Ops, he’s as happy in C# as in PowerShell, in Visual Studio or Hyper-V, in Javascript or Docker.

Other passions include snowboarding, cycling and gin (but not together). He blogs at http://robinminto.com.