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Keynote Speaker
John Viega

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PRACSE2010
5th Annual Conference
AIT October 14&15
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“most of the problems in software
that bad guys leverage are problems
that the good guys have found
and publicized"
John Viega, Keynote Speaker
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Best Seller Author,
John Viega
will discuss with
PRACSE 2010 participants:
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KEYNOTE SPEECH
October 14, 2010 |
Application Security in the Real World
McAfee: best practices that have worked & which to avoid SW companies inevitably produce insecure code vulnerabilities’ weaponization exploits the business drivers behind them
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KEYNOTE SPEECH
October 15, 2010 |
The Myths of Security
Why anti-virus software doesn't work well -- & how the industry needs to evolve. Why other technologies often do not satisfy customers How to make strong authentication pervasive
Why patch management is so bad
Why the vulnerability disclosure movement is hurting customers
Why academia isn't helping advance the state of the art Where government standards should be focusing
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“...no silver bullet when it comes to
Information Security…
unless organizations & developers understand the context and assumptions in which they are using tools,
such us cryptography, …
a tool will rarely add to the
security of a system
or organization”
Prof. Tassos Dimitriou,
PRACSE 2010 organizer
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Letter to Attendees by Gary McGraw, Ph.D, CTO, Cigital, Washington DC
For more detailed and up-to-date information see program.
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