Gateway Software Symposium

March 6 - 8, 2009 - St. Louis, MO


St. Louis Marriott West
660 Maryville Centre Drive
St. Louis, MO   63134
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Security Boundaries

Security is a large concern in today's world of software development. Security is a multi-dimensional problem requiring skills at a number of different levels. This session is a security overview of a typical Java web development stack.

This session initiates a discussion in the following overlapping areas of security: - Java security - JEE security, which includes JAAS - Spring Security - Operating System security and it's roll in web security - Web Application security - Securing the wire with SSL - Key Management with keystore


About Ken Sipe

Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on enterprise system automation and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Jax-India, and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

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