I Will Be Speaking At The WhiteSource Secure Coding Virtual Summit

I Will Be Speaking At The WhiteSource Secure Coding Virtual Summit

On April 23rd, 2020 WhiteSource will be holding its annual Secure Coding Virtual Summit.

I will be giving a talk at 11:30 AM EST called Secure Coding Best Practices. This is a language agnostic talk on what I think are the best practices for developing secure code:

Computer systems are under siege 24 hours a day, day in and day out. The critical security infrastructure designed to protect those systems, won’t. The other side has the best security hardware and software systems other people’s money can buy and they have all the time in the world to find creative ways to defeat them. Meltdown and Spectre are prime examples of security vulnerabilities that have lurked dormant for decades. Or have they? If your systems are in any way connected to the outside world, the other side will get inside the wire on you. Know that going in.

Whether you write applications, libraries or work in kernel code, the line of code you write today may very well be the vulnerability someone else finds tomorrow. By nature, every code base contains hundreds of attack surfaces and it only takes one serious vulnerability to compromise your system.

In this talk we’ll see:

How hackers think and how they identify weaknesses in our systems.
How to identify hidden attack surfaces, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in critical systems.

  • Where the most common vulnerabilities in Modern software development are and how to avoid them.
  • Why common guidelines and static analysis tools often fail to find vulnerabilities.
  • How to use Threat Modeling to analyze complex systems and built security into our systems at design time.
  • How to use Trust Boundaries to protect critical infrastructure.
  • Why open source and third-party libraries are fast becoming hidden liabilities in our software and how to protect ourselves against their vulnerabilities.
  • What the best practices for protecting our code from attack are.

The critical security infrastructure designed to protect your systems is largely out of your control. The one thing you can control is the next line of code you write. This talk is for anyone writes kernel, applications or libraries that run in the real-world and that face real-world attacks.

In today’s world, that’s all of us.

You can register for the event here.