Keeping the Security Boogeyman at Bay

Creating secure applications is hard, as is evident by the growing number of breaches. A quick glance at sites like databreaches.net will show you that these breaches are occurring all over our industry, from private to public, from big to small. The question that we need to ask ourselves is why. My take is that creating secure applications is about much more than writing secure code. In this talk, I will put security in the perspective of the process of application design. Going beyond the concepts of secure coding, I hope to showcase what it takes to truly build secure applications and highlight some tools/resources that can help you along the way.

Speaker Bio
Shamir Charania is a co-founder @ Keep Secure (http://keepsecure.ca/), a Calgary-based security consultancy. He got his formal start in security during the early days of PCI, and since then, has spent his time mashing security with cloud, development, and devops. Shamir enjoys giving back to the community, and you will find him on his blog(https://www.shamirc.com/, or answering questions on stackoverflow. Shamir spends most of his free time playing sports, or relaxing with the family.