Web Application Security – Why You Should Review Yours

In this talk, we take a look at the whole stack and I don’t just mean LAMP. We’ll cover what an attack surface is and some areas you may look to in order to ensure that you can reduce it. What’s an attack surface? Acronym Hell, what do they mean? Vulnerability Naming, is this media naming stupidity or driving the message home? Detection, Prevention and avoiding the boy who cried wolf. Emerging technologies to keep an eye on or even implement yourself to help improve your security posture. A live compromise demo (or backup video if something fails) which covers compromising a PCI compliant network structure to reach the database system and ultimately exploit multiple failures to gain bash shell access over the MySQL protocol.