We’re being surveilled! Governments and companies collect data. Hackers want that data.

What can software as a service providers do to protect data at rest? What if you need to work with that data? End-to-end encryption isn’t an option, so where do we turn?

In this talk, Ben discusses and demos ways to securely and anonymously handling and distributing sensitive information between users, without allowing the raw data to give anything away.

Going viral isn’t always a good thing. Stopping viruses is hard. Let’s work out how viruses hide. Now that you’re thinking like a virus writer, you can anticipate which areas of your applications need hardening. This presentation will feature live demos of writing PHP viruses, and infection of willing targets.

We've all heard of cross-site scripting attacks. And SQL injection. What about cross-site-request forgeries?

These are just some of the OWASP top ten, but what do they actually look like? We rely on frameworks to abstract these, but understanding then can help your perspective on security.

In this talk, Ben gives live demos of these, and more. Arm yourself with the mindset, tools, and resources required to defend yourself from attack!

APIs are hard. You need to deal with versioning, validation, authentication, and more. This talk introduces Apigility, a recently released, open source API builder created by ZEND, the company behind the current PHP engine. A demo will take you through the various options to easily get started.

PHP as an event-based programming language? It’s been possible for a while, but in all the wrong ways. There is a better way, and this talk will take you down the ReactPHP rabbit hole and back again in less time that it takes to make 3.6 billion requests!