Survivng the Week 7/20/2012

Black Hat 2012 Coverage

Dark Reading put together a list of interesting talks to headline at Black Hat this year.  Check out their preview links. Some great talks are on the way, if you’re going, don’t forget that it stays in Vegas. http://www.darkreading.com/security/news/240001945/black-hat-usa-2012-complete-coverage.html

Black Hat Forecast

HTML5 Security (One of our team members Shreeraj Shah will be presenting). A presentation you won’t want to miss. http://www.securityweek.com/researcher-talk-html5-security-black-hat

KPMG Cyber Vulnerability Index 2012

With so many cyber attacks in the news recently, executives are becoming increasingly concerned about their organization’s threat exposure. In the last three quarters, many of the Forbes 2000 companies had been compromised and lost data. A recent survey by KPMG has some revealing findings on attack numbers. Attacks are ever increasing.  Are your organizations applications secure? Test them with NTOSpider.
http://www.kpmg.com/UK/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/PDF/Advisory/Forbes-Survey-publish-and-be-damned.pdf

SAFECode Agile Dev Security Guideline

The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) is a non-profit organization. SAFECode released “Practical Security Stories and Security Tasks for Agile Development Environments.” This new paper provides practical software security guidance to Agile practitioners -
http://www.safecode.org/publications/SAFECode_Agile_Dev_Security0712.pdf

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About Dan Kuykendall

Dan Kuykendall is the CTO and Co-CEO at NT OBJECTives. Dan is a founder of NT OBJECTives and has been with the company for more than 10 years. He is responsible for the strategic direction and development of products and services and works closely with technology partners to make sure integrations are both deep and valuable. As a result of Dan’s dedication to security, technology innovation and software development, NTO application security scanning software is often recognized as the most accurate because of its sophisticated automation techniques. Dan joined NT OBJECTives from Foundstone, where he was responsible for the portal interface to the company’s flagship product, FoundScan. Prior to Foundstone, Dan was the founder of the Information Security team in the United States branches of Fortis. Dan is a regular blogger on web application security issues on ManVsWebApp.com and co-hosts An Information Security Place Podcast. His has presented on the topics of mobile and application security at many of the top security industry conferences such as ISSA (2011), B-Sides (2012-2013), OWASP AppSecUSA (2012), HouSecCon (2010-2012), ToorCon (2013) and THOTCON (2013). Dan has been involved with Web Application Security Consortium and is a regular contributor to many open source development projects including founding the RPM Builder, phpGroupWare and podPress projects. Connect with Dan on Google+

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