IDEALondon Lunch & Learn | The Life and Hacks of Open Source Components
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Description
Meterian helps prevents companies' own software application assets from becoming an Achilles' heel. Developers and security officers can rely on Meterian to automatically and continuously prevent risks buried in their software apps from causing financial and reputational damage. Attend this free lunch for a chance to win an Amazon gift voucher and learn...
How did someone manage to steal the data of almost 200 million users in late 2017? Equifax simply fell victim to a vulnerability on a framework, Struts, which is widely used by companies from SMEs to large financial institutions. It is a seasoned framework, but even the newest ones, used in modern microservices architectures, are affected by widely known vulnerabilities. After a clear introduction to the problem, with a couple of other illustrious examples, we will perform an exploit together, live, and then take a look at possible prevention strategies.
This talk will open your eyes to a problem you may not realise businesses are exposed to.
Recommended to anyone from C-level to developers. Attend this session and learn:
- how a vulnerability can affect your product even if it is outside of your codebase
- how it can be easily exploited to gain access to an underlying system or database
- how you can protect your business
- how to win a £100 Amazon gift voucher (remember to bring your business card)
Speaker Bio
Bruno Bossola got interested in computer programming after he bought a Commodore Vic20 when he was 12 years old. Starting work with C programming in 1988, then 1996 in Java, his 31+ year career spans industries including banking, automotive, system integration and public administration. He has built enterprise applications at Workshare, Vodafone, and Tesco. He is an experienced coder, Agile Coach, trained in XP/Scrum with 15 years of Agile work in practice. Most recently he co-founded Meterian, a CyLon accelerated startup and member of Cyber Exchange. He is serious about developing software securely using agile best practices. Come along and learn how to get to know your software app’s risk profile continuously now.
Bruno will be available after the talk for those interested in discussing their application and open source security needs. Any busy professionals who would like to sign up for a 20-minute consultation, please contact vivian@meterian.com
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Organiser IDEALondon
Organiser of IDEALondon Lunch & Learn | The Life and Hacks of Open Source Components
IDEALondon (Innovation and Digital Enterprise Alliance London) is a post accelerator workspace run by a world class partnership of Cisco, UCL Engineering, EDF Energy and managed by Capital Enterprise. With light-touch, high-relevance support, IDEALondon offers a unique mix of expertise and experience to enable digital startups to flourish.
Startups are actively adopted and encouraged by one partner, but supported by all. They are introduced to relevant contacts and given access to opportunities, investment, promotion, mentorship, as well as tailored training and consultancy.
