RSAC 2021 #1
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1. Web App and API Security Needs to Be Modernized: Here’s How – Sean Leach – RSA21 #1
The truth is, most web app and API security tools were designed for a very different era. A time before developers and security practitioners worked together, before applications were globally distributed and API-based. But attackers are developers too, and they aren’t bogged down by the limitations of legacy solutions. It’s never been more clear that it’s time for a change. Sean will outline new rules for web application and API security that respect the way modern applications are built.
https://www.fastly.com/blog/the-new-rules-for-web-application-and-api-security
This segment is sponsored by Fastly.
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Sean is the Chief Product Architect at Fastly, where he focuses on building and scaling products around large scale, mission critical infrastructure. He was previously VP, Technology for Verisign, where he provided strategic direction along with product and technical architecture and was a primary company spokesperson. Sean was previously CTO of name.com, a top 15 domain registration and web hosting company as well as a Sr. Director at Neustar.
He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Delaware. His current research focus is on DNS, DDOS, Web/network performance, Internet infrastructure and combating the massive internet security epidemic.
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2. A “Great Equalizer”, Until It Isn’t: Regional Security in a Global Pandemic – Allie Mellen – RSA21 #1
In security, regions can impact available technical capabilities, manpower, and other resources. This has been felt more than ever in African countries given the dramatic shift to remote work during the pandemic. Allie's talk with Kerissa Varma dissects and compares regional responses to COVID from security teams in 17 different countries in Africa, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.
Segment Resources:
https://www.rsaconference.com/usa/agenda/full-agenda#q=allie%20mellen&sort=%40eventstart%20ascending
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Allie supports security and risk professionals, covering security infrastructure and operations to assist clients in building and maturing their threat detection and response strategies. Her coverage includes the people, processes, and tools of the security operations center.
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3. API Security – Sandy Carielli – RSA21 #1
We are seeing API related breaches almost weekly - Experian, John Deere, Peleton, Starbucks, etc. Why are we seeing so many of these, and how do we need to change our thinking to improve API security? What makes this difficult?
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Sandy is a principal analyst at Forrester advising security and risk professionals on application security, with a particular emphasis on the collaboration among security and risk, application development, operations, and business teams. Her research covers topics such as proactive security design, security testing in the software delivery lifecycle, protection of applications in production environments, and remediation of hardware and software flaws.
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4. Culture Matters – Put People At The Heart Of Security – Jinan Budge – RSA21 #1
Whether the human element means creating a toxic-free environment for your people, navigating the maze of organizational politics and detractors, building the human firewall, or marketing security: people and culture are central to security. We will discuss some tips to help listeners focus their people vision and approach team, organizational and security culture change strategically.
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Jinan leads Forrester’s security & risk research in APAC, and globally on awareness, behavior and culture. She’s a global keynote speaker, author and champion for diversity. Her background as a transformational CISO in large bureaucratic organization keeps her research firmly grounded in reality.
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