Foojay Podcast #58: How Java Developers Can Secure Their Code
- September 30, 2024
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Three years after Log4Shell caused a significant security issue, we still struggle with insecure dependencies and injection problems.
In this podcast, we'll discuss how developers can secure their code.
I talked with three authors who posted a security and code quality post on Foojay.io.
Video
Podcast (audio only)
Guests
Jonathan Vila
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanvila/
- https://about.me/jonathan.vila
- https://twitter.com/jonathan_vila
Brian Vermeer
Erik Costlow
Content
00:00 Introduction of topic and guests
01:35 Brian: Why is Log4Shell still around?
https://foojay.io/today/the-persistent-threat-why-major-vulnerabilities-like-log4shell-and-spring4shell-remain-significant/
03:24 Outdated dependencies are still used a lot
04:31 Who is responsible for dependency updates?
07:55 Snyk tools to help discover issues
10:15 Comparing to Dependabot
11:21 How to keep dependencies up-to-date
14:32 Responsibility to use dependencies with care
17:17 Looking forward to the JFall conference
18:48 About Foojay
19:49 Jonathan: Is SQL injection still a problem?
https://foojay.io/today/top-security-flaws-hiding-in-your-code-right-now-and-how-to-fix-them/
24:50 Deserialization injection
27:30 Logging injection
31:22 Even experienced developers make mistakes
33:17 About Sonar tools
35:53 Other articles by Jonathan
https://foojay.io/today/author/jonathan-vila/
https://foojay.io/today/ensuring-the-right-usage-of-java-21-new-features/
38:20 Other security tools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVCYj8oQUY
39:47 Erik: Trash Pandas are attracted by unused code
https://foojay.io/today/trash-pandas-love-enterprise-java-garbage-code/
43:01 How bad are insecure but unused libraries?
45:16 Problem of code only used by unit tests
47:15 Testing in different layers (develop, test, production)
49:31 How much code is not used in production?
50:31 How code becomes unused
https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-57/
54:29 Conclusions
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Java Champions & Developer Advocate and Software Engineer for Snyk. Passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming, and Cybersecurity. Co-leading the Virtual JUG, NLJUG and DevSecCon community. Brian is also an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and regular international speaker on mostly Java-related conferences.
Erik Costlow was Oracle’s principal product manager for Java 8 and 9, focused on security and performance. His security expertise involves threat modeling, code analysis, and instrumentation of security sensors. He is working to broaden this approach to security with Contrast Security. Before becoming involved in technology, Erik was a circus performer who juggled fire on a three-wheel vertical unicycle.
Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
Jonathan is a developer advocate at Sonar. He is a Java Champion and co-founder of the conferences in Spain JBCNConf and DevBcn and organizer of the Barcelona JUG. He has also been a speaker at several conferences including DevNexus, Oracle CodeOne, DevoxxUK, JNation, DevConf.IN, DevConf.US, and JFokus.
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