SecTor 2023
who it's for
network security engineers, application security engineers, site reliability engineers, cloud networking engineers, security operations analysts, gaming network engineers
topics
API security and discoverability; WAF as a service; anti-DDoS and bot management; ML for security policy building; full-proxy architectures; firewall configuration evolution; load balancing through history; firewall management automation; gaming industry firewall practices; SIEM integration and logging; SSL offload and failure modes
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Hello! | Jason Rahm, Buu Lam, Aubrey King, Chase Abbott | 01m |
Booth at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre hosts prizes at the booth and a half-hour sponsored session while Brian McKenry gives a special presentation later… | ||
| Sweet or Heat | Brian McHenry | 12m |
APIs are proliferating across every app and business and automated defenses are now required to keep pace, claiming AI and ML are essential for API security… | ||
| Success Breeds Panic: shares the story of his first security incident | Peter Scheffler | 07m |
An app suddenly spikes to 3,000 downloads a minute, Rackspace reports “servers melting,” and the team scrambles to rack physical hardware at $10,000 for a new… | ||
| How to break into tech: Journey with F5 technology | Shaun Gouws | 04m |
Claims a nontechnical hire moves into F5 roles by curiosity and repetition: hired into a contracting role, asks the networking team for study materials, gets… | ||
| What was your first firewall? | Buu Lam | 02m |
First firewall story: Check Point on Sun Solaris installed by hand in the '90s, with a bulky centralized management platform that ran on a Solaris box and… | ||
| The Evolution of Full-Proxy Architectures | Pat Fiorino | 03m |
Argues that modern full-proxy architectures terminate and reestablish connections so proxies can perform deep traffic inspection and manipulation, improving… | ||
| How Configuring a Firewall has Changed Over the Last 15 Years | Buu Lam | 05m |
First production firewall is NetScreen integrated with host IPS, configured as broad permit-to-any rules; modern configs move to app-level allow/deny so teams… | ||
| Firewalls for the Gaming Industry | Rebecca Maloney, Lock Winder | 04m |
First firewall is iptables in a gaming shop, built from open source with automation, and the team discovers management and onboarding are painfully hard; later… | ||
| Load balancing through the years | Rebecca Maloney | 04m |
Starts from a concrete failure: legacy Cisco CSS/ACE boxes choke when SSL daughterboard overload causes opaque behavior and engineering takes 8 months to… | ||
| Lessons Learned from | Jason Rahm, Buu Lam, Aubrey King, Chase Abbott | 07m |
Learn that missing endpoints matter: API discoverability is a practical security problem where unknown or orphaned endpoints act like unpainted back doors and… | ||
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