Build 0.4 Talks: IT Security

Claus Overbeck is one of the founders of RedTeam Pentesting GmbH, a company that specialises exclusively in penetration testing. As a penetration tester he tests IT security of networks and applications from an attacker’s perspective and gives advice on how to deal with vulnerabilities found.

Ten Commandments of IT-Security for Web 2.0 Startups - Claus R.F. Overbeck from HackFwd on Vimeo.

For me the talks at the Build 0.4 event with HackFwd were a great experience because of two factors: The HackFWD people managed to gather a line-up of outstandingly interesting speakers and they limited the time for each talk to 15 minutes. At the end of the day your head ends up stuffed with tons of new information and inspiration. This also raised the bar for my own talk.

For the talk I decided to propose some very basic rules to the HackBoxes. Theses should give them some starting ideas about what to pay attention to when developing secure web applications: “Ten Commandments of IT-Security for Web 2.0 Startups”. These rules are all quite obvious, no big surprises here. Still I bet most of you developers out there violate these rules rather often, so go to the video and count your offences while watching!

Thanks to the HackFwd team and all attendees for those really great days! I am looking forward to seeing you in the future.

Claus Overbeck