[LRUG] [COURSES] Rails security workshop challenges

[Jay Caines-Gooby]

Thanks Ali,

One happy customer here :)

On 30 October 2014 09:30, Najaf Ali <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:
> Dearest LRUG,
>
> For a few years I've been running a Rails Security Workshop which seems to
> get good feedback. For those of you that haven't heard of it, it's a one-day
> session that gets attendees to use their technical skills to exploit a
> series of insecure Rails applications. The goal of the day is to make
> developers more aware of security issues by making them implement attacks by
> hand.
>
> On my part the public workshop requires a lot of organising, sales calls,
> venue costs and other prep work to run profitably. I find actually running
> the day quite stressful. For those and other reasons it doesn't make much
> sense for me to run it for less than around £400 per seat. That's out of the
> price range of many individual developers. And with a two-year-old at home
> and another boy on the way in January, running another public workshop is
> probably off the cards for a while!
>
> For those of you who would like to have a crack at the challenges in your
> own time, I'm making the workshop exercises available as a standalone
> product. It includes email support from me as well in case you get stuck or
> need feedback.
>
> The package is very much at a beta stage, but to get it in front of people
> I'm selling the beta now for $67, going up to around $97 later. As LRUG is
> sort of where this whole security workshop thing started out, you can get a
> further $30 off with the code ruglife (good for 100 sales). This includes
> all future updates to this package even after the price increases. Future
> updates will include content going into detail on the vulnerabilities in the
> challenges and how to avoid them in your code.
>
> If for whatever reason you don't think the challenges are worth what you
> paid for them, email me and I'll initiate a refund ASAP.
>
> Here's the landing page, or if you just want to buy the thing you can do so
> directly via gumroad. If you have any questions about the challenges, Rails
> security, good steak restaurants in London, advanced nappy-changing
> technique or anything you like really then shoot me an email at this
> address.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Ali
>
> P.S. If you've done the in-person workshop and you or your company paid for
> a ticket, let me know over email and I'll give you a code to get the bundle
> free of charge.
>
> P.P.S. If you don't feel like paying me any money today but want some
> security advice all the same, you can get an email course covering the
> absolute basics of Rails security here. There's a sales pitch at the end of
> it for the challenges which you're free to ignore.
>
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