[LRUG] Rails Security Workshop

[Najaf Ali]

Good morning LRUGgers,

This is a sales pitch so I'll try to make it as quick and painless as
humanly possible, ignore if you're not in a particularly consumerist mood.
The good news is I'm not trying to hire you!

I'm running a hands-on Rails security workshop on Saturday August 24th.
Attendees will work through a series of time-limited security war games and
code all exploits from scratch. The goal of this is to replace vague FUD
about security with a concrete understanding of the common attack vectors
put to work against Rails applications.

By the end of the workshop, you will:

* Have an intuitive sense for vulnerable code and how to exploit it. Your
spidey senses will start tingling at the sight of potential flaws in your
codebase.
* Be up to date with common attack vectors against Rails applications.
* Be armed with strategies for keeping your codebases secure in the
long-term.

I'll also throw in copies of the securing rails ebook/screencast series and
whatever other goodies I end up bundling with them (when they're done).

In future workshops I'm thinking of charging in the region of £300 for the
day, but since this is a bit of a pilot I'm only going to ask for enough to
roughly cover venue and doughnuts, so call it £50 a seat. The workshop is
limited to six attendees for now, venue TBC but probably somewhere near Old
Street or Angel.

If that sounds like a good day out for you, make with the clicky clicky
hither:

http://rails-security-workshop.eventbrite.co.uk/

If you have any questions, comments or whimsical musings for me, feel free
to get in touch on or off list.

All the best,

-- 
Najaf Ali, http://happybearsoftware.com
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