Security

 Yesterday, the Swetugg conference in Stockholm, Sweden, gathered hundreds of developers for a full day of talks and best practices. Detectify’s software engineer Martina Janevska was one of this year’s speakers. Martina used her own 2-year old code to demonstrate how much she has learnt about security since she started to work at Detectify – with her new security skillset, she actually hacked her old code to  find out how vulnerable it was at the time she built it.

Participating in Google’s bug bounty program at age 14 sparked my interest in web security. I have now, at 17, been employed by IT security startup Detectify for two years and written IT security-related columns for leading media houses in IT and tech.  Here are 5 ways that I believe we can get more young people into web security.

Once upon a time, an IT department’s primary job was to make sure the printer was working and ensure employees could log in to their computers. Most work was simple; that is no longer the case today. Read this article by our guest blogger Faith MacAnas to find out what your IT department needs to be doing to keep up.

Online retail has been around since the early days of the internet and has grown dramatically over the last two decades. To find out whether e-commerce retailers are aware of security risks, we have looked into the HTTPS configurations of 915 Swedish online stores. The results show that it is high time for e-commerce to catch up with security best practices.