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API Security: Cyber Chaos when you don’t authorise requests properly

Ken Munro

11:15-11:45 CEST Wednesday 29th September

By far the most common and most damaging of cyber security vulnerability categories in smart (e.g. IoT) devices is in the API. Get ‘cyber’ wrong there and you have an instant and total compromise of the device, the data and the platform. Yet API security and request authorisation are easily tested for and easily detected. Why do so many developers miss this?

We are experts in IoT device security. Many of the large smart device hacks you have seen in the press are from our research. Learn from us, learn from the mistakes of others, and deliver better, more secure APIs to your customers. Along the way we will show you numerous examples of real-world products where API requests went wrong. From airplanes to kids toys to smart watches to ships to cars and many more.

What you will learn

  1. The consequences of failing to authorise API requests on our personal information, mobile apps and smart devices.
  2. How to authorise correctly and how to test that requests are correctly authorised
  3. Where to find request authorisation issues and carry out your own cyber security research

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 30 Minutes
  • Live Q&A
  • New technologies and challenges
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Session Speaker

Ken Munro EuroSTAR speaker

Ken Munro

Partner – Pen Test Partners, U.K.

Ken is a founder of Pen Test Partners, a firm of ethical hackers. He regularly blogs, and speaks about everything from Systemic Issues in the Internet of Things, to Critical National Infrastructure security and hacking cars. He also writes for various newspapers and magazines in an effort to get beyond the unhelpful scaremongering punted by many security vendors.

This has led to regular appearances on TV and with online news agencies as well as the broadsheet press. Ken has become a voice for reform and legislative change, speaking at TEDx, and briefing UK and US government departments. He is also involved with various EU consumer councils and is a member of the CVE Board.

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