Securing Modern API and Microservices Based Applications by Design

Synopsis: Many applications are modernized by leveraging APIs and decomposed into smaller units typically living inside containers. These changes involve many new tools and technologies that are not always well understood, leading to a poor application security posture. Many application architects and developers who take advantage of these architectures lack the knowledge to apply the …

Designing Secure Cloud-based Web and Mobile Applications

Synopsis: “UK NHS seeks to recover from global ransomware-attack” “143 million impacted by Equifax breach” “Leaky Amazon S3 bucket sloshes details of thousands with US security clearance” These 2017 headlines remind us that cyber security is ongoing and imperative in all that we design, build, and deploy. In this presentation, Farshad Abasi of Forward Security Inc. …