Cybercriminals and nation-state actors are constantly scanning, probing, and adaptively searching for your bugs, flawed assumptions, or even your shortcuts taken during development to exploit your software. It is no longer a question of if an attack will happen, but when. Yet, most developers are neither trained nor equipped to face this reality.

In this session, we will examine how real-world adversaries target not just individual systems, but the very infrastructure our society depends on. We will break down specific attack strategies used in major incidents, like WannaCry and NotPetya, and show how better design choices, secure coding practices, and defense-in-depth strategies could have reduced their impact or even entirely thwarted the attacks!

You will get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the tools and techniques used in modern cyberattacks. But more importantly, you will leave with practical, developer-friendly ways to improve the security posture of your software —starting today.

Are you prepared for what is coming?

45 minutes, targetted toward developers and people inside software development