Adria Richards talks about building secure websites at The Nerdery
Beyond the Norm from The Nerdery on Vimeo.
Last night we got to play host to the Twin Cities Web Design & Standards group, which featured speaker Adria Richards , who is probably most well-known for discovering an unsecured database on former (perhaps if we ever get a ruling on the election) Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman’s website.
Though is a little hesitant to talk about the Coleman security issue, she doesn’t want to be that person who can only talk about one issue, she said the best thing about the whole debacle is that it has brought the idea of keeping websites secure into the limelight.
Oftentimes, she said, websites will blather on and on about how they won’t sell your information, and how it’s private, but they never talk about how secure your information is.
Take a look at the video when you have some time. It was a nice overview about the different kinds of attacks websites can suffer if you don’t secure them, and there’s a great q&a session towards the end where a few of our nerds offering up some advice on securing information.
