Abstract

The rapid growth in generative AI, AI-driven development, and low-code platforms has allowed almost anyone to create and release web applications at unprecedented speeds. This growth in development has both pros and cons. Among the cons is the tendency to overlook small mistakes that could lead to vulnerabilities in web applications, which could significantly impact the resources of any enterprise. In this talk, I will discuss the current state of web application security, use a demo to outline some mistakes that coders often make that could affect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of systems, and recommend some best practices to help reduce errors that could have serious implications if left unaddressed.

About the Speaker

Fitzroy Nembhard is a Research Associate II at the L3Harris Institute for Assured Information at Florida Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida Tech in 2018 and has taught courses at Florida Tech, including web applications, database systems, big data, and Python programming. He also holds a M.S. in Bioinformatics from Morgan State University. His interests include the discovery and application of emerging technologies and algorithms to cybersecurity and software security, data analytics, machine learning, visualization, and the application of motifs and graph-based algorithms to biomedical research.