Los Angeles/2011 Meetings

Topic: NoSQL Security
Speaker: Bryan Sullivan



Bryan Sullivan is a Senior Security Researcher with Adobe Systems, where he focuses on cloud security issues. Prior to Adobe, he was a program manager on Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle team, and a development manager at HP, where he helped to design HP's vulnerability scanning tools WebInspect and DevInspect. Bryan has spoken at security industry conferences such as Black Hat, RSA Conference, BlueHat and TechEd on topics such as RIA architecture, REST, cryptography, denial-of-service defense, URL rewriting, and applying secure development processes to Agile projects. He was the author of the MSDN Magazine column Security Briefs, and is the coauthor of the books Ajax Security (Addison-Wesley, 2007) and the upcoming Secure Web Applications, A Beginner's Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2011).

Abstract: NoSQL Security

NoSQL databases are rapidly gaining popularity, especially for use in distributed, high-availability cloud services. But are we making the same mistakes with NoSQL in the childhood of the cloud that we made with SQL in the childhood of the web? This talk will examine some general security issues that come with emphasizing the Availability aspect of Consistency/Availability/Partition-tolerance, and we'll also look at some specific issues with popular NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra.

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BPS has experience with fortune 500, City, and State Government clients. BPS has working technical knowledge in the following areas of security and compliance:

Audit trail monitoring and planning Business continuity planning and disaster recovery Configuration management Data classification Incident response planning Policy development Risk analysis and acceptance Forensics Forensic tools and methodology Secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) Vulnerability management and remediation Project management