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<div style="max-width: 590px;">Good afternoon LRUG!</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">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, <a href="https://links7.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/ep6Z5JiX7m00tk0vh?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">tickets available here</a>.</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">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.</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">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.</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">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.</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">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.</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">If you would like to attend please <a href="https://links8.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/K4CcEoLWozJUhP6gf?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">buy tickets here</a>. 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.</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">Side-points while I'm here:</div><ul style="max-width: 590px;"><li style="max-width: 590px;">I will be talking at <a href="https://links6.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/1LxSBs5rCkXFWdW2u?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">LRUG next week</a> 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.</li><li style="max-width: 590px;">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.</li><li style="max-width: 590px;">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.</li></ul><div style="max-width: 590px;">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.</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div style="max-width: 590px;">Thanks,</div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><br></div><div class="mixmax_signature" style="max-width: 590px;"><div style="max-width: 590px;"><font color="#666666" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Najaf Ali - Founder at <a href="https://links7.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/8nHCsfWF2cbHAh3W7?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">Happy Bear Software</a></font></div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><font color="#666666">Phone: 07590 073 977</font></div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><font color="#666666">Skype: alinajaf85</font></div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><font color="#666666">Timezone: <a href="https://links6.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/N5Oy2KfaEhX0e7ckV?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">London, UTC + 1</a></font></div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><font color="#666666"><a href="https://links3.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/aP6PynXBgvpzIkilN?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://links1.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/dOyGhcrfDvvTboB2K?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://links1.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/FNW57s9elS7DsjsK6?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">Medium</a> | <a href="https://links1.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/UQWDm3oFFZyWIVT6Z?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">GitHub</a><br></font></div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div style="max-width: 590px;"><font color="#666666">I run a technical consultancy specialising in Ruby on Rails. Have a look at <a href="https://links3.mixmaxusercontent.com/rSxCBSBNkaSyYEvDv/l/MCjDwZKrJhQ6KYmip?messageId=z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k&rn=gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI&re=icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI">this one-page info sheet</a> 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 :-)</font></div></div><img align="left" width="0" height="0" style="border:0; width:0px; height:0px;" src="https://track.mixmax.com/api/track/v2/z7lRfUJ0NPIuEmC5k/i02bj5SZyF2d0Z2bzJXYlJWewBXYoBUasFmI/icmcv5yZ1JHbuMHdzlGbARXYoNmI/gIwV3bydEIzJXZzVFI5JWdSBibvRmbvxkI?sc=false" alt="">
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