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. Explore effective test techniques for assuring that common security features are tested. Learn about the most common security vulnerabilities, how to identify key security risks within applications, and how to use testing to mitigate them. Understand how to security test applications—both web- and GUI-based—during the software development process. Review examples of how common security testing tools work and are used in the security testing process. Take home valuable tools and techniques for effectively testing the security of your applications going forward.
Jeffery Payne
Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a software company that builds secure software applications using agile methods. Since its inception in 2008, Coveros has become a market leader in secure agile principles and recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the country. Prior to founding Coveros, Jeffery was chairman of the board, CEO, and co-founder of Cigital, Inc., a market leader in software security consulting. He has published more than thirty papers on software development and testing, and testified before Congress on issues of national importance, including intellectual property rights, cyber terrorism, and software quality.
Business demands and agile development processes are driving the pursuit of faster software releases, spawning a set of new practices called DevOps. At the forefront of the DevOps movement are rapid deployment, continuous integration, and continuous delivery—all of which require a high level of test automation across the application lifecycle. Join Jeffery Payne as he discusses the unique challenges associated with integrating automated testing into continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Learn how CI/CD works, appropriate tooling, and test integration points. Find out how to integrate your existing test automation frameworks into a fast release, DevOps environment. In addition to technology issues, Jeffery covers another key to DevOps success: the integration of development, testing, and operations processes—and people—with deep and honest communications among teams. Leave with a roadmap for integrating test automation with continuous integration and delivery so that every stakeholder has strong confidence that changes made to the code base will function as expected.