Speaker

Andrew Best

Andrew Best

Senior Principal Consultant at Octopus Deploy

Andrew is an experienced leader, consultant, architect, and developer, with experience built on shipping successful outcomes for enterprises large and small across a wide variety of industry verticals.

With broad and deep knowledge in technical strategy, architecture, product management, agile delivery, team leadership, and software engineering, Andrew is in his element when working with businesses from the executive level to the developer level to deliver high quality, innovative, and impactful software solutions.

Andrew is currently with Octopus Deploy as a Senior Principal Software Engineer, contributing to the growth and success of an already amazing product and company!

Learn Authentication The Hard Way

If you work with software systems, security is one of your primary concerns. User security is not Someone Else’s Problem. The prevailing advice for building secure systems is to not roll your own security mechanisms.

These two statements are in conflict - should we be responsible for ensuring our systems are secure, or should we delegate security concerns to experts?

In this talk we will dive into the specifications that underpin modern authentication solutions - In particular OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0. We might also take a sneaky peak at OAuth 2.1!

We won't just read them though - we are doing this the hard way, and will have a go at implementing them!

This talk will build your familiarity with several security specifications, your comfort level of diving into and wrangling them, and allow you to take accountability when selecting and implementing security solutions.

SecTalks Adelaide Half Day Conference Sessionize Event

April 2020 Adelaide, Australia

Andrew Best

Senior Principal Consultant at Octopus Deploy