Bill Jackson: Secure Coding Mechanics

Agenda
6:00 - 6:30 Food, drink, and networking
6:30 - 7:00 Chapter business and group discussion
7:00 - 8:00 Featured presentation

Secure Coding Mechanics

Bill will bring his experience as a software engineer and secure coding lead to discuss common vulnerabilities in both development and architecture including:

• Integer overflow/underflow

• Filename/path validation

• Excessive logging

• Debug modes/maintenance hooks/configuration by convention

• Insecure password handling (back-end handling)

• Insecure start-up and shut-down

About Bill Jackson

Bill Jackson has been a software engineer with Raytheon for 15 years. He has worked as the secure coding lead for the GPS program (yeah, that GPS), and has helped define and implement secure coding processes and practices for several other programs. His experience extends to Java EE, Agile software development, concurrency, and user interface design (expect a lively discussion). Bill has MS in computer science from the University of Colorado at Denver and a BS from Colorado State University and holds a CISSP and CompTIA Security+ certification.

Please RSVP! Seating is limited and is prioritized for those who RSVP. Near the Aerstone location, parking is available through the Whittier Neighborhood Zone (http://files.meetup.com/3503072/Parking.png). Food and drinks will be provided and there will be a networking session preceding the meeting. As always, meetings are free to attend.

Our continued thanks to Aerstone for providing the venue and the refreshments.