Security in PHP Projects

Creating fast and secure web applications has nothing magical - yet many developers claim they do not have time for it. The goal of this workshop is toshow the audience that you can protect yourself and your work from harm without compromising speed or losing time. This workshop, presented by Arne Blankerts,co-founder of thePHP.cc, will cover typical and non-typical attacks on websites or services and demystify the geek-babble used in security reports. Youwill learn how attackers work, what tools they use and how easy it is to hide the tracks. We show you in simple steps on how to avoid becoming anexploited victim by using easy to implement counter measures. No matter if you are about to start a new project or have to work with legacy code.Last but not least, we will take a look into securing the general infrastructure and architecture of your Web project to avoid common design flaws thatmay or may not be a security risk in the future.