[LRUG] Rails Security Workshop

[Najaf Ali]

Hi all,

Super chuffed at the response to this, quick note re: questions I'm getting
for a lot of people.

*Doing the workshop again*: Providing the pilot goes well and the attendees
find the day valuable, the plan is definitely to do this regularly and/or
at your office, but let me get 1.0 out the door first! I'll send an email
to the list a month before it happens, but the earliest it's going to be is
late October.

*Doing the workshop on a weekday:* Yep we'll do that too.

*Waiting list:* People drop out of things, so please go ahead and click the
'Add Me to the Waitlist' button on the eventbrite page if you'd like to
jump into a freed spot.

Didn't realise there would be so much interest in this, so it's all rainbows
and spinning red pandas <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuvrg9g3PK4> up in
here!


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Najaf Ali <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:

> 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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Ali, http://happybearsoftware.com
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