AGENDA

• 6.00pm: Introductions
• 6.20pm: Talk: Security on Rails
• 7.15pm: Kahoot!
• 7.35pm: Code challenge and Networking

About the talk: Security on Rails

Ruby on Rails is designed with security in mind, offering built-in protections against common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF. It encourages best practices through features like Strong Parameters, encrypted credentials, and secure defaults in views and database interactions. While Rails handles much of the heavy lifting, developers still need to stay vigilant by validating input, keeping dependencies updated, and following secure coding practices.

# About the Speaker: Ivy Njuguna

Executive Partner and Instructor
Ivy Njuguna is a forward-thinking Executive Partner and Instructor at Martial School of IT.
She specializes in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and AI agents—equipping learners with the tools and knowledge to navigate and secure tomorrow’s tech landscape.

What is Nairuby?

African Ruby Community, ARC is an organization that was started in 2010. The community currently has over reach of over 5,000 members spread across East Africa, made of developers (Engineers), entrepreneurs, designers and freelancers. In terms of development and demonstrations the community focuses on ruby technologies and frameworks, which are all open source and widely used by startups to prototype and carry out proof of concept with a go to market strategy.
The community hosts weekly and monthly meetups in different cities in East Africa. The community brings you Ruby Conference every year with different themes to fill the gap that exist between school and industry and in return helps spur innovation and growth in contribution to global economy.
ARC brings entrepreneurs, developers, Designers, open source contributors. Why? We believe in a holistic approach through, entrepreneurship “Solution approach” and open source we can solve so many problems. This in return empowers everyone who attends with technology “tool” and entrepreneurship “Methodology” to reach their fullest potential and inspire the rest of the world and their communities.