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Offense at Scale
Chris Rohlf talks about how we look at offense in a world of large containerized deployments and ephemeral environments, explaining why the traditional model is no longer relevant.
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The Nihilist’s Guide to Wrecking Humans & Systems
Christina Camilleri talks about how social engineering can be used in conjunction with technical attacks to create sophisticated and destructive attack chains and shares some real world war stories.
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Modern iOS Application Security
Dan Guido talks about the current state of iOS attacks, reviews available security APIs, why they are not good enough, and the design of the Mobile Application Security Toolkit to address risks.
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Automating Security at Slack
Ryan Huber talks about some of the ways Slack approaches collecting, inspecting, and communicating security information to the security team and to the individuals in their organization.
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Building a Modern Security Engineering Team
Zane Lackey discusses adapting security to change, building security programs, lessons learned from bug bounty programs, running attack simulations and knowing when security has been breached.
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Bitcoin Security: 1/10th Cent to a Billion Dollars
Olaf Carlson-Wee explores micropayment and wealth storage use cases for bitcoin and examines cryptosystems used to facilitate micro-penny payments and secure $B in global bitcoin banks.
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Hash Histories - Toy Blockchains for Great Danger
Chris Anderson discusses Document Coin and using blockchain in new and innovative ways. He presents the JavaScript Cryptography code line by line and runs test cases using Prova in the browser.
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Two-Factor Authentication
Phil Nash takes a look at generating one time passwords, implementing two-factor authentication in web applications and the use cases for QR codes.
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Securing Software by Construction
Jean Yang discusses research ideas to create secure software, what prevents them from becoming commercial solutions, and how the Cybersecurity Factory accelerator bridges the research/industry gap.
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Scala, ECS, and Docker: Delayed Execution @Coursera
Brennan Saeta talks about aspects of Coursera’s architecture that enable them to rapidly build sophisticated features for their learning platform, the use of containers and security-related issues.
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How Will Persistent Memory Change Software Design?
Maciej Maciejewski discusses persistent memory, storage devices, and DRAM, accessing persistent memory with ACPI 6.0 extensions, existing support in the Linux kernel and the NVM library.
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Real World Experience Report on Running Docker
Ben Hall shares his experience working with Docket for development, testing and deployment into production, discussing scalability, resource management, security and other related issues.