Andela Uganda workshop – Web Application Security in Action

In 2018, the world was rocked by data privacy scandals around the top global tech companies. Currently, Europe is seriously getting ready for GDPR compliance. Further, most enterprise workloads are moving to the cloud (83% by 2020) while the IoT market is on the rise and attractive to hackers; mostly because technologists often trade off their product’s security for a faster launch curve.

Without a doubt, data security will increasingly become a critical issue for most organizations hence why it is imperative for software engineers to arm themselves with strategies against hackers, especially with the obvious vulnerabilities that can expose your user data to an attacker.

This workshop gives you a  chance to see, first-hand, how web applications could get hacked and how a developer can mitigate the risks and vulnerabilities of hackers.

Led by Benedict Egima, and Timothy Kasasa, this will be a learning and open conversation, so come ready to engage, on this first episode of Andela Workshops in Uganda!

Benedict is a software engineer with 6 years of experience, passionate about teaching, open source, and a regular blogger. He has an in-depth understanding and expertise in USSD/VAS solutions, Payment Integrations (Card, Mobile Money, Mobile Banking) and keen on web app security. Benedict is also committed to TDD and is currently a Senior Developer at Andela.

Timothy is a software developer with over 6 years of experience; he codes for fun and for work, is very passionate about knowledge share and open source. An expert on FinTech, and RegTech with hands-on experience building and maintaining Financial solutions for both the European and Ugandan market, Timothy carries over 4 years of experience developing VAS Applications; and currently works as a Software Developer at Laboremus Uganda Ltd.