20% of all web traffic is bad bots targeting APIs to bypass security controls. Powered with ML, bots evade corporate defenses inflicting damage before security teams can respond. Bots are dynamic and ever-mutating, but WAFs are always behind, require prior rules. Security teams are fighting cyberattacks blindfolded, trying to filter bad from good bots.

The session will focus on :

Impact of malicious bots on web applications and how this negative impact needs to be addressed.

What will you learn from session :

How To identify malicious bots. The effects of malicious bots on web applications.How Web Application Firewalls help mitigate bots. Best Practises mitigating bots explained using Case Study / Use Case.

Guest Speaker Info: Vaisakh T R

Speaker BIO: Vaisakh is the CEO and chief architect of Prophaze Technologies. He is an Electronics Engineering graduate who developed a deep passion for software by exploring various platforms. One of them was the international hacking community called RuxCon, which is a computer security conference that brings together the best and the brightest security talent within the Aus-Pacific region. Being a member of this community he got to know the deeper aspect of ethical hacking. This was how his passion for cyber security grew deeper and deeper. He has worked for various MNCs in the past only to discover his ability to be an individual player in the field. With the experience gained from various corporates and his own insights, he started Prophaze, The New Phase of Security.

Social Handle- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaisakhtr/

Guest Speaker Info: Lakshmi Das

Speaker BIO: Lakshmi is the COO and product evangelist at Prophaze. She is a Computer Science Engineering Graduate. She started her career with Infosys working on the development and customisation of their Banking product and has worked for many other different domains . She has also worked on Hospital management software with various other international clients. Having worked on multiple products and understanding the importance of data security and other international compliances, she could add to the initial development phase of Prophaze. She leads the operations at Prophaze and more importantly defines the visioning of the Product and monitors its Roadmap.

Social Handle- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmidas/

Speaker Info: Vivek Sridhar

Speaker BIO
Vivek is a technophile and an Open Source contributor with around 15 years of experience in the Software Industry and works at Microsoft as Senior Cloud Advocate. In his previous role, he has mentored startups/developers, speaker at conferences/meetups for DigitalOcean as Senior Developer Advocate, Co-Founder / Chief-Architect of NoodleNext Technology. He was also heading DevOps and QA at BlackBuck and was a DevOps Solution Architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. Vivek started his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer.

Social Handle
Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivek_sridhar