MobTech Meetup 1st Edition

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Join our virtual MobTech Meetup event for an evening of exchange, knowledge and learnings with members of the Engineering community.

We are very excited to host our very first online MobTech meetup which will contain two presenters speaking on two very different and interesting topics.

Our first speaker is Lazar Petrov who will show how Software Engineers can use simple tools to verify the integrity of their work. Our second presenter is Igor Afanasov who will speak about the world of web accessibility and how developers themselves can do web more accessible.

Agenda:
6:30 - Welcome to our first meetup; introduction and welcome
6:45 - 8pm - Speakers Presentations

Please read on for more information on our presenters and their topics.

Lazar Petrov
Senior Software Security Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lazar-petrov-33a21685/

Bio:
For me Security is a culture, a lifestyle choice, and a continuous approach to understanding and reacting to the world around us. I see security as a vector that must be persistently followed rather than a point to be reached. I’m a passionate security professional with several years of experience in big corporations like IBM and KPMG. It was a year and a half ago when I joined Mobiquity as a security engineer and discovered what I really like - to combine forces with developers in order to make software secure by design. So far Mobiquity is the company with the most friendly atmosphere I’ve ever experienced.

Topic summary:
Today I am going to talk about and demonstrate how a Software/DevOps engineer can use very simple and open source penetration testing tools to verify their work. More particularly I am going to show how we can easily verify if TLS configuration is secure and only strong ciphers are supported. Furthermore I am going to show how to easily discover if private web directories are left public and also if our database is vulnerable to injection attacks.

Igor Afanasov:
Senior Front End Web Developer at Mobiquity Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/iafanasov/

Bio:
I joined Microsoft right after university, having more than 1 year experience at the time. Now I have over 10 years experience in different roles: consulting, full-stack, backend, frontend engineer, RnD department manager, mentor, freelancer, digital nomad. I am also very passionate about traveling.

Topic summary
In almost all projects I’ve worked on, accessibility had a low priority. A lot of clients are not ready to pay for accessibility. This talk will employ you - a software engineer - with the knowledge and tools to make the web more accessible yourself without additional spending from a client.

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