Why can’t we be friends? Solving the social challenges of application security

Presented at Summercon 2023, July 15, 2023, 11 a.m. (30 minutes)

Application security remains a difficult challenge for organizations to solve. Year after year we are constantly bombarded with new vulnerabilities in products and libraries which we all use. Much of the focus with improving application security revolves around the technical aspects yet the social aspects are widely ignored. This presentation is about the social challenges of application security which security practitioners don’t address, and provide some solutions to those challenges.

Presenters:

  • Christopher Surage
    Christopher Surage is an application security engineer currently working in the financial industry. He has been working in application security for the last 10 years in a variety of industries (finance, consulting, technology). He enjoys learning about different technologies and the potential security implications of their usage. He also enjoys learning how things work.

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