Defense-in-Depth engineering

Presented at BSidesLV 2023, Aug. 9, 2023, 10:30 a.m. (Unknown duration).

The 2021 OWASP Top Ten introduced a category "Insecure Design" to focus on risks related to design flaws. In this training, we will focus on building defense-in-depth software. What can we do to proactively architect software to be more resilient to attacks? What type of findings may not be discovered via automated static analysis? How can we design our software to be more friendly during incident response scenarios? This one-day training is perfect for engineers as well as security practitioners that have some familiarity with the OWASP top 10. During this training, we will focus on identifying often-overlooked architectural anti-patterns and vulnerabilities to be on the lookout for. We will utilize source code review to analyze patterns for improvement in both real-world applications as well as intentionally vulnerable applications. Every interactive exercise will involve discovering concerns and writing code to engineer solutions. The course will wrap up with real-world vulnerability analysis of open-source software with an effort to help provide more secure architectural recommendations for these projects.

Presenters:

• John Poulin
  John Poulin is an experienced Application Security Practitioner with over 10 years of experience in software development and security. Over his tenure, John has worked with many Fortune 500 companies and startups alike to perform secure code review, architecture, and design discussions, as well as threat modeling. Currently, as a Staff manager of Product Security Engineering at GitHub, John and his team focus on performing secure code review of features and services, performing threat modeling, and overall helping to ensure that our software ecosystem is moving towards security maturity. John has given talks or training at many industry conferences, such as DEF CON, LASCON, DevSecCon, CactusCon, Source, as well as various Ruby and OWASP events about practical Application Security.
• Michael McCabe

Links:

• https://www.bsideslv.org/talks#RVLKLJ

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