Join the LiveCall

Please call Line 2 at (916) 235-1003. PIN: 634019.
Monday, August 15th
9:45-10:45am PDT

Rex Booth,
Grant Thornton

The presenter(s) will not be making the same presentation as at the IT Summit, but instead will present a brief overview and then engage with the participants. The abstract below is provided to give you a sense of their interest:

Cybersecurity is a multi-faceted topic which requires attention to a variety of issues in order to develop a comprehensive security posture. In the past, approaches to cybersecurity have focused primarily on perimeter defenses, network security, and platform hardening. While such efforts have improved cybersecurity by reducing the vulnerability of organizations to a variety of threats, criminals have now shifted their efforts to a more vulnerable component of an organization’s IT presence: their applications.

In this presentation, we will provide attendees with an overview of application security, using web applications as the framework for our discussion. We will discuss the impetus for the increased threat from criminals to web applications, provide a broad overview of a web application and the inherent vulnerabilities, and discuss some specific threats and how they tie into risk to organizational risk. We’ll complete our discussion by providing a live demonstration of a website hack and discuss some high-level tactics and strategies for risk mitigation.