Security

Thanks very much to Wynyard (https://www.wynyardgroup.com/en/)for the pizza and beer, and Orion Health (https://www.orionhealth.com/nz/) for the venue!

Tonight we have two security themed talks.

The first is from Scott Whitfield and Bryn Lewis who are both from Wynyard:

Wynyard operates in an $8 billion high growth market at the cross roads of big data, crime analytics and security. Its software is used to fight serious financial, transactional – such as human and drug trafficking – new age extremism and high consequence cyber crime. We will talk about the impact of security compliance on architecture and some of the principles Wynyard has adopted.

We'll then take a quick break and have some yummy pizza, graciously shouted by Wynyard.

After dinner we'll hear from Laura Bell (https://twitter.com/lady_nerd) who is an application security specialist. A reformed software developer and penetration tester she has spent most of the past decade doing bad things to nice people’s code. Now she runs SafeStack (http://safestack.io/), a specialist security firm that aims to help fast moving developers like you protect themselves and their creations online from people like her.

The Anarchist’s Guide to Application Security

We build amazing applications, wondrous contraptions that are helping people to solve problems and MAKE THINGS BETTER. We are doing this at a record pace, with new code pushed to production servers frequently and by many individual developers. And we are doing this on the Internet, an evil place filled with terrible people who want to do our beautiful code creations harm?

Oh dear, so what now? Buy a CYBER device or six? Hire a specialist team of ex-hackers? Purchase insurance?

Lol. Let’s face it; this approach hasn’t worked for the last 20 years. Let’s stop wasting time and money and start surviving.

Based on a career working with some of the most dynamic and fast moving organisations we could find, let us show you how to throw out the security rule book and bring continuous, survival focused security to your world (no matter how big or small that world is).

The doors open at 6, and we'll kick off at around 6:15pm.

See you there!