Nick MalcolminSafeStackRecap: AppSecDay AU 2017At this year’s AppSecDay in Melbourne I got to talk to passionate application developers and security professionals about how Little Red…Oct 20, 2017Oct 20, 2017
Nick MalcolminSafeStackWhat is Vulnerability Management?Note from SafeStack: This is the first post in our Consultant Series sharing security advice, which we hope will be useful for anyone out…Jun 6, 2017Jun 6, 2017
Nick MalcolmUsing AWS Lambda to call and text you when your servers are downGetting a phone call in the middle of the night when your servers are on fire is a necessary evil for many developers and network…Dec 5, 20161Dec 5, 20161
Nick MalcolmAn introduction to passwordless loginsLogging in without a password? It’s a pretty unusual idea, but one that is quickly gaining traction. In this post I’ll give a quick…Sep 15, 2016Sep 15, 2016
Nick MalcolmMaking a Rails Health Check that doesn’t hit the databaseIn a production application you usually have many servers, and each of those servers gets checked periodically to make sure they’re still…Aug 31, 20162Aug 31, 20162
Nick MalcolmThe challenge and opportunity of continuous improvementHere’s something companies and software developers tend to dislike admitting: we had an XSS bug on our site! Thankfully the ability to…May 10, 2016May 10, 2016
Nick MalcolmTiming Attacks against String ComparisonString equality is something we check all the time when writing code. Are all_systems == “nominal”? Most of the time using your programming…Apr 11, 2016Apr 11, 2016