[VDBUH22] Grace Jansen & Steve Poole - Mother Nature vs Java – the security face off

Mother Nature has had millennia to build up its defenses to the many potential hazards and attacks it may face. So, given its wisdom and expertise on this subject, what can we as software developers learn from it and bring back to the evolution of our own application’s security? In this session we’ll explore where software and biology overlap when it comes to security and lessons we can learn from nature to improve our own application security. This talk will enable attendees to view security in a new light – making it more memorable and enabling them to evaluate their own app security and where they could improve. We’ll be using biological analogies to cement the need for security within our development processes and how we can look to nature for inspiration on how we can improve in our app’s evolution. This is a particularly topical subject and one that we don’t give enough focus too.