Security: Tales from the Field with Michael Hess

In this talk, we’re going to explore four compromised Drupal sites to learn:

• How they were exploited.

• The common configuration and coding errors that led to the compromise.

• How the site owners figured it out, and

• Best practices

Michael Hess (https://twitter.com/mlh407), adjunct lecturer, Solution Architect Lead at the University of Michigan and lead of the Drupal Security Team. Drupal is an open source content management framework that underlies at least 2% of the world’s websites, including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk.

Hess works with the School of Information and the U-M Medical Center, teaching 3 courses on content management platform and overseeing the functionality of several campus websites. He also serves in a consulting and development role for many other University departments. Hess is a graduate of UMSI, with a master’s degree in information.

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