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Edward Finkler
Dead Agent, FictiveKin

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Ed Finkler has been a web developer for 13 years, the last 6 of those as the Web and Security Archive Administrator of CERIAS at Purdue University. In recent years his interests have turned to web application security, especially with open source technology. He is is a member of the PHP Security Consortium and creator of the PHPSecInfo auditing tool for PHP environments. Ed has also worked in Rich Internet Application development, and his Twitter client Spaz was awarded “Best HTML Community App” in the Adobe AIR Developer Derby. Finkler also studies interface design and usability.

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5:20pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Put Down the Superglobals! Secure PHP Development with Inspekt

PHP, Security
Location: Meeting Room B1/B4

Edward Finkler (FictiveKin)

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Inspekt is a filtering and validation library for PHP5. With a focus on ease of use, Inspekt makes writing secure PHP applications faster and easier. This talk covers the Inspekt library and the "input cage" concept, best practices when utilizing the library, and how to integrate Inspekt with existing applications and popular frameworks. Read more.

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Edward Finkler Dead Agent, FictiveKin