FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DevelopMentor and SD Times to Present Special Web Seminar on Web Application Security Countermeasures

Los Angeles, Calif., and Oyster Bay, N.Y., January 14, 2004 - DevelopMentor, the world’s leading software development education company, and BZ Media's SD Times, the industry newspaper for software development managers, have teamed up to present Developing Secure Applications: Web Application Security - Attacks and Countermeasures, a special Web seminar taking place on January 28, 2004 at 11 a.m. (Pacific Time).

Featuring recognized security expert Keith Brown and SD Times columnist Andrew Binstock, the educational presentation is designed to provide software and application development managers and senior software engineers with critical new insight into mitigating the threat of systems attacks.

“Development managers at large enterprises are worried about software security, and for good reason," said Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "From hacks and exploits by malicious individuals seeking to damage corporate assets, to the very real threats of data- and intellectual-property theft, these issues must be addressed. We are pleased to be working with DevelopMentor on this important Web seminar."

Key strategies and countermeasures required to develop secure applications will be covered, in addition to simulated attacks that exploit security holes unknowingly written into code by developers. Specific threats caused by using SQL injection and cross site scripting will be specifically addressed, as these are common vulnerabilities are found across all types of web-based applications.

Binstock is a contributing editor for SD Times and principal analyst of Pacific Data Works, LLC, a market analysis firm serving the high technology industry for over two decades.

DevelopMentor course author and instructor Brown is a longtime expert in application security and has published several books, including Programming Windows Security and Effective COM (Addison-Wesley, 2000 and 1998, respectively). At DevelopMentor, he teaches Essential Windows 2000 Security, Essential .NET Security, and Guerrilla .NET courses.

Developing Secure Applications: Web Application Security - Attacks and Countermeasures will be held on January 28, 2004 at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. To register, please visit www.develop.com/webinar. All attendees will receive a free whitepaper on application development security.

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DevelopMentor is the leader in educating software developers on new technologies. For over a decade, the company has offered public and private hands-on, instructor-led training courses and special Guerrilla training events for experienced developers across the United States and Europe.