Security
Privacy-First Re-Architecture
Monday Dec 5 / 12:30PM PST
The tech industry grew organically the last few decades. We built new innovations on top of old. We evolved systems and technologies to meet new challenges. Decisions of the past became assumptions of today.
Nimisha Asthagiri
Principal Consultant @Thoughtworks
Vulnerability Inbox Zero
Monday Dec 5 / 11:20AM PST
You have a vulnerability problem. You run a scanner. Now you have two problems - vulnerabilities and a mess of scanner results to process.
Alex Smolen
Director of Security @LaunchDarkly
Scaling Defenses Amidst Evolving Threat Landscape
Monday Dec 5 / 10:10AM PST
Security services that defend against malicious or fraudulent traffic operate in an unpredictable and constantly evolving threat landscape. The dynamic nature of attack traffic means that as attacks evolve, our defenses must evolve too.
Aditi Gupta
Staff Security Software Engineer @Netflix
A Big Dashboard of Problems
Monday Dec 5 / 09:00AM PST
We have all heard "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" in medicine, but the security industry isn't so sure. This talk explores the forefront of simple and effective preventative strategies.
Travis McPeak
Founder and CEO @ResourcelyInc
Log4Shell Response Patterns & Learnings From Them
Thursday Dec 1 / 12:30PM PST
In early December 2021, rumors about a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Log4j began circulating on social media, dubbed Log4Shell. Over the next three days, those rumors were confirmed and the immense scope of the vulnerability became clear.
Tapabrata Pal
Vice President of Architecture @Fidelity
Dark Side of DevOps
Thursday Dec 1 / 10:10AM PST
Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular: moving things to the earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers, shifting control definitely sounds good.
Mykyta Protsenko
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix