Building for the bad guys

By Neo Ighodaro

Elevator Pitch

How often do you think about security when building apps? Do you think about the ~5% of your users that are bots and hackers? Many of us don’t. We worry more about application architecture and database structure and the billion users. This talk aims to bring you back to earth on security.

Description

Bad Guys

This is a feature presentation starring you the protagonist and the guy in the basement on the chair drinking Redbull and DDoSing your website.

Security has to always be a consideration when building applications. This talk aims to build that constant reminder that early in your application is the best time to think about security.

We will consider some commonly known exploits and how you can safeguard yourself and also some less common ones. We will consider some complex ones and how you may secure yourself.

This talk is for everyone who uses the web and has been designed to remove most complex terms.