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TH Security Testing for Test Professionals
Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.
Tue, 05/05/2015 - 8:30am

Today’s software applications are often security critical, making security testing essential in a software quality program. Unfortunately, most testers have not been taught how to effectively test the security of the software applications they validate. Join Jeffery Payne as he shares what you need to know to integrate effective security testing into your everyday software testing activities. Learn how software vulnerabilities are introduced into code and exploited by hackers. Discover how to define and validate security requirements.

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Concurrent Sessions

T17 Security Testing: What Testers Can Do
Declan O'Riordan, Test and Verification Solutions
Thu, 05/07/2015 - 1:30pm

Thousands of times each day, network perimeter security defenses fail to recognize new and obfuscated attacks. Rather than attempting to build security firewalls, Declan O’Riordan asserts that project teams must design, code, and test security into applications―and that requires skills that are in short supply. As testers, we need to recognize which security tests we can perform and which require delegation to experts. Let’s stop our passive acceptance of designs that are weak on security and instead conduct analysis of the security features before we plan the system testing.

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T23 Improve Security through Continuous Testing
Jeremy Faircloth, Raytheon
Thu, 05/07/2015 - 3:00pm

Many companies develop strong software development practices that include ongoing testing throughout the development lifecycle. But they fail to account for the testing of security-related issues. This leads to security controls being tacked on to an application just before it goes to production. With security controls implemented in this manner, more security vulnerabilities are uncovered but there is less time to correct them.

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