Application Security 

Watch On Demand

Cyber Expo & Conference Ireland 2022

If you missed out at this years Cyber Expo, catch the stream on-demand below!

This stream will consider application security which refers to those security measures taken within an application to stop the app’s data or code being taken or hijacked. Hardware, software or processes which determine and diminish security weaknesses can all be considered under the application security umbrella.  

Stream Lead Facilitator:

Gary Robinson, CEO, Uleska

Gary is an application security professional and innovator with a proven track record of architecting, coding, evaluating and testing secure software systems. Gary has a strong software security background with an emphasis on secure software development, built from over 20 years of experience developing, securing and pen-testing complex applications.

Gary has architected, and threat modelled applications at one of the world’s largest banks and has created industry reference documents on secure coding and led sessions in conferences through the OWASP organisation. Having implemented software security processes in multiple small and enterprise companies, Gary works with industries to increase integration of application security practices and explore ways to make security a friction-less aspect of the SDLC

What to Expect

Vendors Presenting in This Stream:

Presenters in This Stream:

Andrew Thompson, Sales Engineering Team Lead, Checkmarx

Andrew is the Sales Engineering team leader for the Checkmarx Strategic Accounts team and has been with Checkmarx for six years. He has been working in the IT industry for over 30 years, with experience in Java programming, Speech Recognition, software testing and security. He has spent the last 15 years helping companies integrate static analysis into their SDLC, before Devops, and most definitely before DevSecOps was a ‘thing’. Now focusing on security, Andrew is able to advise on how to embed best practice security analysis into a development teams daily routine.  

Kev Breen, Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Immersive Labs

Kev Breen is the director of Cyber Threat Research at Immersive Labs where he researches new and emerging cyber threats. Prior to his civilian life Kev, spent 15 years in the military serving as a Radio Technician and Trunk Comms Specialist before transitioning to a Cyber Security Analyst, specialising in Malware Analysis. After leaving the military, he continued to work in Cyber Security running a CIRT team for a defence contractor before joining Immersive Labs. Outside of his work life, Kev can be found publishing or contributing to Open Source tools and projects or reading a Sci-Fi book.

Michael O'Brien, Senior Sales Engineer, Progress Kemp

From a purely technical background with specialities in network engineering and infrastructure management, Michael has been with Kemp for over six years working in the Technical Support team before moving to Kemp’s Sales Engineering team in Northern Europe. 

We work with our partners to deliver solutions and services to make your clients and customers IT environments more secure and compliant and future proof these solutions by tailoring these to suit their needs and requirements. Renaissance and our suite of security vendors and partners are ideally placed to work with  industrial organisations to help analyse current security systems, design a way to improve them, and deliver the improvements over time. Starting with the most critical systems and vulnerabilities. Learn more.

Checkmarx is the global leader in software security solutions for software development. Delivering Software Security Platform that unifies with DevOps. Providing static/interactive application security testing, software composition analysis and application security awareness.

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Immersive Labs has pioneered a single enterprise platform that for the first time can measure the capability of your workforce. Organizations using Immersive Labs can evidence resilience across the whole workforce, kept up to date at the speed of cyber.. Learn more.

Progress Kemp secures the always-on application experience that modern companies expect. Their load-balancing, network performance monitoring + network detection/response delivers value with simple deployment, flexible licensing, and elite technical support. Kemp recent joining of Progress has boosted their already stellar solution stack with Flowmon and more.  Learn more.

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