Speaker: Isaac Potoczny-Jones
Founder @Tozny & Authentication and Privacy Specialist
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SESSION + Live Q&A
How to Use Encryption for Defense in Depth in Native and Browser Apps
Encryption is one of the most effective technical security measures. It massively reduces the impact and cost of a data breach. But encryption is typically focused on “infrastructure-level” elements like TLS and full-disk encryption. These are important tools, but they rely on assumptions about the infrastructure instead of the application code.
As developers, infrastructure isn’t our strength, and sometimes it’s not even our job, so encryption takes a back seat to application-level features. But adding encryption to the application itself can insulate our systems from infrastructure-level failures, adding an important element of defense in depth.
In this talk, we will discuss the pros and cons of application-level and end-to-end encryption. Since browsers are a nearly unavoidable element of modern application development, we will also cover the attack surface of application-level encryption in the browser, how it is very different from native clients, and how WebAssembly and WebCrypto help.
Location
Pacific DEKJ
