Laura Bell
With over twenty years of experience in software development and information security, Laura Bell specialises in bringing security into organisations of every shape and size.
The team with 30 million players: Reducing software vulnerability at a global scale
Facing a global pandemic has been (and continues to be) an incredibly challenging period. There are very few people who have not seen dramatic impacts on their lives as a result.
While we as humans have been facing this struggle, a similar problem has been emerging in our software development community. Not only are we finding more vulnerabilities in our software than ever, but those weaknesses have been affecting a larger proportion of our software ecosystem.Are there lessons we can take from the last few years and the changes we have made to protect people from a pandemic and apply them to our software ecosystem? I believe there are.
In this talk, we will look at how the relationships between software projects improve our world whilst also making us vulnerable. We will do this by diving into the structures between codebases and looking at how these affect the risk faced by our people, data, and systems.