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Secure Application Development Tips and Tricks

Secure application development requires the right combination of training and practice. Insecure apps can help - they give us a test playground to develop, attack, and hone our secure development skills. Similarly, example 'secure' applications can be models for developers to learn the latest in secure application development.

In this webinar, we are joined by AppSec expert Jason White to discuss:

  • Tips and tricks you can use to develop more secure applications
  • Common secure development mistakes and how you can avoid them
  • Insecure applications created to help you develop more secure code


About This Modern Security Series Episode

Security professionals and developers often use insecure apps to teach or demonstrate application vulnerabilities. The main activity is 'hacking' or showing how exploiting a given vulnerability works. WebGoat was (as far as we know) the first purposely insecure app for teaching web application security. Many other goats' can have also come about and now we even have a Juice Shop. Until now, there is no purposely secure [example] application for developers to model from. So, let's work with what we have and pull out some some secure coding and secure SDLC lessons from the insecure applications.

Speakers:

Jason White

Application Security Consultant | Astech Consulting

Jason spent over 15 yrs as a developer, much of it interested in security (web application and network). His coding experience is with Java, .Net, the trinity of CSS/HTML/Javascript amongst some other languages and platforms. He now spends his days as an Application Security Consultant and trainer with AsTech. His interest and focus is on educating and facilitating secure coding for developers. Jason has been contributing to OWASP as a developer on WebGoat since 2014. His next ambition is to build a platform for developers to learn to remediate insecure code (not just break it).

James Wickett

Head of Research | Signal Sciences

Often found at the intersection of DevOps and security, James is the creator of gauntlt and the author of DevOps Fundamentals — a course on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.

About the Modern Security Series

The Modern Security Series by Signal Sciences brings the best technologists around to present on modern security practices and approaches ranging from AppSec to DevOps.

Come each month and enjoy a fun and friendly presentation by some of the world’s foremost experts on topics that are shaping our industry for the future.

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