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Security Culture in Development

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The majority of security vulnerabilities come from flaws in software code. While the rate in which these flaws occur remains constant, we are now developing more code than ever before as well as deploying software to many more devices. We must address the software development process and it can only be done by creating a culture of security. This session presents the Security Culture Framework (SCF) and applies it to an entirely fictional development organization. We will discuss awareness training and tying the training to tangible improvements in code. By using the SCF Topics/Planner/Metrics approach, we will move the organization toward developing every more secure code. The presentation will conclude with take-aways for applying the SCF to your software development team.

Presented at CircleCityCon in June 2015.

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Punch and Counter-punch Part Deux: Web Applications

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Applications today account for 75% of all attacks on corporate resources. Whether injection, XSS, poor crypto or the general ignorance of secure coding techniques, applications need our help! In “Punch and Counter-punch Part Deux”, Wolfgang and NerdyBeardo present a poorly secured application and how to properly utilize secure coding techniques to defend it. Our attacker demonstrates active attacks against the application including using SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, CSRF, and Broken Crypto. Demonstrations will be written in C# however concepts will work with any programming language. All code will be made available on github.

Presented at GrrCON 2015 with @NerdyBeardo.

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