ApacheCon NA 2013

Portland, Oregon

February 26th – 28th, 2013

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Wednesday 11 a.m.–11:45 a.m.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Security Vulnerability Reports from the Apache Tomcat Project

Mark Thomas

Track:
How Secure?
Audience level:
Beginner

Description

This presentation is intended for anyone who has to respond to security vulnerabilities either at the ASF or elsewhere. This presentation will discuss some of the challenges the Apache Tomcat team has faced when dealing with reported security vulnerabilities.

Abstract

This presentation is intended for anyone who has to respond to security vulnerabilities either at the ASF or elsewhere. This presentation will discuss some of the challenges the Apache Tomcat team has faced when dealing with reported security vulnerabilities and how the Tomcat security team has handled those challenges. In addition to discussing the challenges, the presentation will discuss some of the steps taken by the Tomcat project to try and reduce the re-occurrence of those challenges.