SecCasts Live: nVisium Top 3 Vulnerabilities - Rails Edition

Date	Mar 18, 2015
Time	12:00 PM EDT
Cost	Free
Online

In this month’s edition of SecCasts Live, nVisium will present the Top 3 most common and most harmful Ruby on Rails security vulnerabilities – Mass Assignment, Injection, and MetaProgramming. During this presentation you will learn how and where these issues manifest within Rails code along with their impact and mitigation steps. Whether you are a security professional, software developer, or simply interested in Rails security, after taking part in this training you will understand what to look for and how to avoid critical security issues in Rails-based applications. 

Presenter: Ken Johnson is the CTO of nVisium and leads the company's product development efforts. Ken is obsessed with code, passionate about the open source community, and genuinely loves to create. Over the past 6 years, Ken has spent time navigating through every aspect of application security from offense and defense to technical and managerial roles. Ken believes the security community must keep pushing, iterating, and striving to keep up with the changing landscape of application development in order to provide tangible, proactive controls, policy, technology, and advice.