Application Security Strategy and AST Lifecycle

Presented at Black Hat Europe 2017, Dec. 7, 2017, 12:55 p.m. (25 minutes)

In the era of DevSecOps, CI/CD and Agile development many companies still become victims of disastrous data breaches caused by insecure applications. The presentation explains an application security strategy to reduce costs and assure holistic Application Security Testing (AST) of corporate web and mobile applications. The talk will also encompass application inventory and discovery, vulnerability correlation, virtual patching and practical usage of Machine Learning in application security.


Presenters:

  • Ilia Kolochenko - CEO & Founder, High-Tech Bridge
    Ilia Kolochenko is a Swiss application security expert and entrepreneur. Ilia holds a BS (Hons.) in Mathematics and Computer Science, and is currently performing his Master of Legal Studies degree at Washington University in St. Louis. Starting his career as a penetration tester, he later founded web security company High-Tech Bridge, headquartered in Geneva. Under his management, High-Tech Bridge won SC Awards Europe 2017 and was named a Gartner Cool Vendor 2017 among numerous other prestigious awards for innovation in application security and Machine Learning. Ilia is a contributing writer for Forbes, SC Magazine UK, CSO Online and Dark Reading, mainly writing about cybercrime and application security. He is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

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