Building more modern applications means building secure ones

Omar gives his take as a security engineer on what it takes to build better, more secure applications.

Highlights include:

  • What better communication means when it comes to communicating between security and engineering teams.
  • What are the 3 most important security requirements to consider when building an application
  • The difference in making the important changes versus the ones that just look important

Experts featured

  • Omar

    Staff Security Engineer, Betterment

    Fastly
  • Bea Hughes

    Staff Security Engineer, PagerDuty

    Fastly
  • Kelly Shortridge

    Sr. Principal Product Technologist, Fastly

    Fastly

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Omar

Staff Security Engineer

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