Achieving the Web Isolation Nirvana - How far along are we?

Presented at BSidesSF 2022 Rescheduled, June 4, 2022, 4:30 p.m. (50 minutes).

Security isolation improves the resilience of applications against attacks. This is especially true when untrusted or third party code is included. This talk provides a deep dive on browser isolation mechanisms, their efficacy, current challenges and insights on where Web Isolation needs to go next.


Presenters:

  • Pedro Fortuna - Jscrambler
    Once on a trajectory to a full academic career, where he taught security and computer science courses for about 5 years - ended up falling in love with the fast paced world of entrepreneurship. Started Jscrambler where he leads all security research and drives the company product innovation on application security. Has more than 15 years of experience researching and working on web security. OWASP contributor. Regular speaker in several international security conferences. Main research interests lie in the fields of Application Security, Web Security, Reverse Engineering, Malware, and Software Engineering. Builder of solutions that require code rewriting, sandboxing, or both. Author of several patents in application security. Recently embraced fatherhood, his biggest and most important project to date.
  • Jasvir Nagra - Technical Advisor to Jscrambler
    Jasvir Nagra is widely recognized as a thought leader in software protection. He is co-author of Surreptitious Software, the definitive textbook on software protection, and an early researcher in obfuscation, software watermarking, and fingerprinting. With more than 12 years of experience, his professional path includes companies such as Instart, Dropbox and Google - where he led the Caja project. As an advisor to JScrambler, he is helping cybersecurity startups address key technological challenges.

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