[LRUG] [COURSES] Rails Security Strategy Seminar

[Najaf Ali]

Good afternoon LRUG!
I'm running a web application security strategy seminar on the evening of
February 9th, 19:00 => 20:30 near Chancery Lane, 15 seats at £30 + VAT each, 
tickets available here.
This will be about an hour of talking (split into two 20m-25m sections + time
for discussion) about how senior(ish) developers, technical leads, and CTOs of
web application products can approach the problem of getting their team to
deliver more secure software.
The security workshop I run is ultra hands-on and focused on the gory details of
how to break security mechanisms of vulnerable Rails applications. If you just
want to do that (or send someone on your team to it), the next public workshop
will be in late March. I will send an announcement to the list about that in
early February.
This seminar on the other hand will be about attitudes towards security, how to
sell the idea of making more secure software to the rest of the business, and a
strategic, long-term approach to making your software secure alongside other
constraints on your time and resources.
There will also be a lot of specific tactics that fit into that strategy that
we'll be discussing. I will try to lace this with as many anonymised, real-life
stories of security vulnerabilities/breaches as possible to illustrate the
points made.
If you would like to attend please buy tickets here. I would like to be running
this (and the workshop) once every three months from now, so should it be
well-received there will be other chances to attend this if you can't make this
exact date.
Side-points while I'm here: * I will be talking at LRUG next week  about business times, and will be in the
   pub afterwards. Please find me and talk to me about things, especially if
   you're not a regular and it is one of your first few times at LRUG.
 * Our main business is a Ruby on Rails development
   consultancy, Happy Bear Software. We have a few potential projects starting
   in January, but nothing concrete yet, so we would be interesting in hearing
   from you if you need help on a Rails project starting soon.
 * As ever my open invitation for coffee to talk
   about computers, work, parenting, all the wonderful things that happened in
   the world in 2016, etc is still in effect. Please email me if you would like
   to set that up some time soon.

Please feel free to get in touch with any questions, comments, queries,
complaints, righteous indignation about any of the above, on or off-list as you
prefer.
Thanks,
Najaf Ali - Founder atHappy Bear SoftwarePhone: 07590 073 977Skype: alinajaf85
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I run a technical consultancy specialising in Ruby on Rails. Have a look atthis
one-page info sheet for a summary of the services we provide. We're always happy
to meet people building software, so if you think of anyone appropriate for us
we would appreciate being put in touch :-)
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