Gopika Subramanian
Gopika Subramanian is a security researcher with primary focus on Web and Mobile Application Security. She is currently working as a Secops Engineer at Fuze. Gopika is responsible for engineering, threat modeling and implementing security Initiatives at Fuze. In her free time she participates in CTF competitions and has presented/trained in a multitude of conferences.
Session
This workshop aims to overcome the drawbacks of the current approach of teaching application security by blindly attacking applications to analyze vulnerabilities.
This results in engineers being unable to figure out the proper fix for the vulnerabilities and hence allowing attackers to exploit the same.
The labs will help security enthusiasts, developers and students to identify the root cause of the vulnerability in the code, patch it, re-deploy the application, and finally verify the fix.
As an attendee, you will learn to find vulnerabilities with both an attacker and a defenders point of view which would help in a swift SDLC of fixing and moving forward instead of traditional pentesting procedures of fixing
the issues at the end of the cycle. The demonstration will be done using a vulnerable e-cart application with microservice architecture which is deployed using docker where the vulnerable code is attacked and replaced with secure code snippets, compiled, deployed and pentested again to demonstrate how fixing a vulnerability at the root saves engineers time and efforts.