Securing the JVM
Nicolas Frankel at GOTO Chicago 2019
Consider a Java application in a private banking system. A new network administrator is hired, and while going around, he notices that the app is making network calls to an unknown external endpoint. After some investigation, it’s found that this app has been sending confidential data to a competitor (or a state, or hackers, whatever) for years.
This is awkward. Especially since it could have been avoided.
Code reviews are good to improve the hardening of an application, but what if the malicious code was planted purposely?
Some code buried in a commit could extract code from binary content, compile it on the fly, and then execute the code in the same JVM run… By default, the JVM is not secured! Securing the JVM for a non-trivial application is complex and time-consuming but the risks of not securing it could be disastrous.
In this talk, I’ll show some of the things you could do in an unsecured JVM. I’ll also explain the basics of securing it, and finally demo ...
Nicolas Frankel - Developer Advocate at Hazelcast
Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotochgo.com/2019/sessions/801/securing-the-jvm
This is awkward. Especially since it could have been avoided.
Code reviews are good to improve the hardening of an application, but what if the malicious code was planted purposely?
Some code buried in a commit could extract code from binary content, compile it on the fly, and then execute the code in the same JVM run… By default, the JVM is not secured! Securing the JVM for a non-trivial application is complex and time-consuming but the risks of not securing it could be disastrous.
In this talk, I’ll show some of the things you could do in an unsecured JVM. I’ll also explain the basics of securing it, and finally demo ...
Nicolas Frankel - Developer Advocate at Hazelcast
Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotochgo.com/2019/sessions/801/securing-the-jvm