Catch the .NET Conf: Latest Updates and Tips

September 6, 2018 2495 Views Christy Hofffman

The .NET Conference is right around the corner. Make sure to mark your calendar because this virtual three-day developer event is not one you will want to miss. Included will be a wide variety of live sessions for beginners to advanced developers to attend.

Learn to build and the latest techniques for:

mobile
games
web
desktop
libraries
services
and more for varieties of devices and platforms with .NET.

Attend presentations on:

ASP.NET Core
.NET Core
Xamarin
Visual Studio
C#
F#

For the complete agenda and list of topics, click here.

When: September 12-14, 2018

Where: Virtual- steam from the comfort of your home on Microsoft Channel 9 Studios and attend the Virtual Attendee Party on twitch.tv/VisualStudio

Twitter: #dotNETConf

To participate, follow the hashtag #dotNETConf on Twitter and win prizes by answering questions, interact with the .Net community, and view all the upcoming and new announcements!

We here at PreEmptive Solutions will be relaunching our popular entrepreneur program for startup companies to protect their app at the start of the conference. Be sure to look for a 50% subscription discount for conference participants.

Want to attend a local event in your area? .Net Conf is collaborating with organizers around the globe. Check out complete list here.

I know I’m excited, are you?

PreEmptive Solutions is a proud sponsor of the .NET Conference.

The Secret to Effective In-App Protection

Gartner calls In-App Protection “crucial” in their July 2019 Market Guide for In-App Protection In-App Protection. The guide’s summary advises security and risk management leaders to “take due care in protecting their application clients” in order to avoid “security failure.”

This raises the question – what constitutes “due care?” Obviously, no development organization looks to recklessly expose their applications or sensitive data to attack or compromise. On the other hand, over-engineered (or poorly engineered) security controls can quickly lead to excessive development costs, performance and quality issues, and, ultimately, unacceptable user experiences. While terms and terminology may vary, there is broad consensus on how to best define “due care” for any given application/user scenario.

If you don’t follow application security closely, you might think of application obfuscation and symbol renaming as being synonymous – and with good reason. Many platforms and languages, like .NET, Java, and JavaScript have popular obfuscators that do little else--our own Dotfuscator Community Edition for .NET and ProGuard for Java are good examples. However, obfuscation is far more than symbol renaming – and in-app protection is far more than obfuscation. Much of this expansion has been driven by new security requirements, shifting attack vectors, the rise of mobile and IoT computing and, lastly, the growing recognition inside regulations and legislation of the exposure that can result from inadequately protected software.

PreEmptive has partnered with Microsoft for 16 years and we’ve been involved with .NET since before version 1.0 shipped. From that perspective, it’s hard for us to pinpoint a time where the energy and enthusiasm in the .NET community has been higher than it is now. Over the past few years, Microsoft has put together the annual .NET Conf, completely online with viewers, participants, and local events all over the world. The event is virtual and streamed live over three days.

The big news at this year's .NET Conf was the launch of .NET Core 3, the next step in the continued evolution of .NET. .NET Core 3 is a huge effort, with many moving parts, and Microsoft announced many related releases to support it. Highlights for us included:

Search for lockpicking and you’ll see that there’s no shortage of suppliers ready to serve locksmiths and hobbyists, each community having a perfectly legitimate need. Is there any reason to believe that burglars don’t shop the same sites?

Hackers are developers and they have a long history of enthusiastically embracing and adapting development (and DevOps) innovations to speed their work, extend their reach, and ship software – the only difference is that they’re more likely to use those development tools and platforms on YOUR software rather than on their own. Static code analysis tools, debuggers, and even public bug tracking databases are all go-to hacker resources.

Can you tell the difference? Exception or the norm?

Of course, everyone is “for security” in principle. The hard question that each organization has to answer for themselves is “how much is enough?” Over-engineering is (by definition) excessive, and over-engineering application security can, in fact, be devastating as overly-complex algorithms, architectures and processes can compromise user experience, degrade performance and slow development velocity. On the other hand, punishment is swift for organizations that cut corners and do not effectively secure their applications, their data and, most importantly their users and business stakeholders. Finding and maintaining that balance can be time consuming and, because you can never be sure you’ve gotten it exactly right, it can also be a thankless job.

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