Security: Tales from the field

Experience level: 
Beginner
Session Track: 

Code and DevOps

This track is focused on developers and the back-end technologies to deal with today’s and future challenges. With the coming release of Drupal 8, as well as emerging Web technologies, preparation is essential. These sessions will help you learn how to deliver effective solutions to meet these needs.

Speaker(s): 
mlhess

Most security presentations show vulnerabilities and how to protect against them.   In this presentation, we will take a different approach,  We will look at 4 compromised sites, and learn how they were compromised, how the site owner learned about the issue and how to prevent it from happening to your site(s).   We will look at configuration errors as well as coding errors that these "real" site owners made.   We will then look at what it took to clean up the sites after compromised and the consequences that might have resulted. 

We will leave time for questions and answer