2026 Speaker – Simon Painter

Securing a Web App – a Beginner's Guide

Track 101 – 3:45pm

Bio

TBC

Talk Abstract

The very basics of how to secure a web application. I'll talk through the steps an attacker might go through to perform basic reconnaissance on a web app, the data the attacker will be looking for, and how to best hide it from them. I'll talk about the basics of server configuration, and which development languages are likely to have security issues compared to others. Then I'll go briefly through the OWASP top 10, and show examples of each, the issues they cause and how they can be fixed – mostly using ASP.NET as an example language.

Intended Audience

Any web developer who wants to know the basics

How NSFW is this talk?

(How spicy is your talk in chilli's?)

Totally Chill. I tend to keep everyone laughing.

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