As the velocity of application development has increased, so has the velocity (and success) of attackers. Given a massive hiring shortage of security professionals, how can we keep up and even get ahead? We can if we change the role of security to one that is building systems that are resilient to security shocks. When we do this, we find the topics in security are quite different from what they used to be: How are we managing our software supply chain? Does the existing software have a consistent design? How can we build and operate a CI/CD pipeline for the long run? What is a good way to monitor web applications in real-time? And perhaps surprisingly: Are we measuring the outbound email throughput and the capacity correctly? Yes, these are all security issues. Join Nick for his presentation and find out why this is the case so we can make more resilient and more secure software.

About the speaker

Nick Galbreath

Nick Galbreath is CTO and Founder of Signal Sciences, a new company focusing on web application defence and security monitoring. Over the last 20 years, Nick has held leadership positions in a number of e-commerce and social media companies, including IPONWEB, Etsy, Right Media, UPromise, Friendster, and Open Market, and has consulted for many more. He is the author of „Cryptography for Internet and Database Applications” (Wiley), and was awarded a number of patents in the area of social networking. He holds a master’s degree in mathematics from Boston University and currently resides in Tokyo, Japan.
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