Adrian Wood

Biography

Adrian Wood is a penetration tester with experience in network, application and physical security across multiple industries and platforms, currently employed at a large financial institution conducting application penetration testing. Previously he was the founder at WHITEHACK, an Australian information security consultancy specializing in penetration testing, before its sale to a large advisory group. Adrian was also an adjunct network security analyst for the school of Science and technology at the University of New England, Australia. His interests lie with web and mobile application security and cryptography of which he utilities for bug bounty hunting.

Presentation Title

Managing Application Zero Day Vulnerabilities

Presentation Overview

How do the growing number of dependencies in the forefront of your environment leave you exposed?

Christopher and Adrian will provide an overview of application incident response from both a management and engineering point of view and how those viewpoints interact to form a cohesive approach. Learn how adversarial simulation is a key part of understanding a vulnerability in the enterprise, particularly through the shortcomings that present themselves in vendor and researcher provided vulnerability announcements and advisories during emergencies. We will cover important organizational activities that are necessary for application vulnerability response and defense. Additionally, supporting controls and testing support measures will be covered, such rapid test and tooling automation techniques.