Workshop: Website Security Essentials for Developers - Might be of interest to Drupal developers

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Start: 
2010-10-27 18:00 - 21:00 America/Denver
Event type: 
Related event (ie. not Drupal specific)

This 3-hour workshop covers essential web security concepts and trends for web developers. Learn secure coding and development techniques to improve your website’s security posture. The presentation includes working examples of Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, file inclusion, command injection and other attacks against a live web application. "Website Security Essentials for Developers" takes you step-by-step through the attacks and defenses.

This workshop focuses on current web security strategies, secure coding best practices, data validation techniques, and attack mitigation. It is taught using the LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), while the concepts covered are platform independent.

This workshop will cover:


* Six ways you can be hacked

* Web application architectures

* Common website attack scenarios

* Finding vulnerabilities

* Fixing vulnerabilities
* Secure Coding

* Data validation / sanitization techniques

* Best practices for securing web servers

* Live attack simulations

For complete details, please register at http://www.boulderdigitalarts.com/training/details.asp?offering=240

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This workshop is especially

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This workshop is especially geared towards people building dynamic sites and may be very valuable for Drupal developers, so I thought I'd post it.

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