CSC 309 - Programming on the Web Department of Computer Science University of Toronto http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~radu/csc309/ Guest talk by Mr. Edmund Dengler CEO eSentire, Inc. Wednesday August 1, 2007 7pm-7:45pm Room BA 1190 Bahen Centre for Information Technology 40 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada Title: Breaking web applications A very large nummber of "e-commerce" or application websites have been broken into in the last few years, some of them very publicly. This talk will discuss common attacks to web applications and how to program your software to prevent these from happening. BIO Edmund Dengler is the CEO of eSentire, Inc., an IT security and information risk management firm. Edmund has had over 25 years of experience developing software for various industries, and has worked at all levels for a computer system, from as low as ASIC circuit design, to operating systems, and to web application design. Current interests include automatic source analysis tools to detect and fix security problems within web applications.