Application Security has been focused on vulnerability prevention: reducing attack surface, audits, and multiple cycles of pen testing and remediation. The adage: “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” is indeed applicable when it comes to application security, but in an increasingly dynamic world, it is insufficient. Simple mistakes can subvert the best controls especially in today’s “move fast and break things” world. Moving slowly is not an option, so then the challenge is how to react when things, despite all efforts to prevent it, do break. What’s missing is the focus on securing the Application in production. This is Application Security’s Last Mile, and this will be the focus of this talk.
Join us at this month’s TechTok, where Boris Chen will cover today’s threats to application security, what is commonly in place to address them, and what are the new directions to address this Last Mile problem.
You can find out more about the event and register to attend here.
About the speaker:
Boris is a co-founder and head of engineering at the start, tCell.io, an application security startup (currently in steath mode), building a next generation security solution. Boris has over two decades of industry experience in tapping data’s unused power. Prior to co-founding tCell.io, Boris was VP of Engineering at Splunk, and held leadership and engineering positions at LucidEra (SaaS BI startup), BEA Systems, WebLogic, and Sybase.
Tuesday December 8th, 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.
TokBox
501 2nd Street (Suite 310)
San Francisco
CA 94107
As usual we will provide pizza and beer.
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