Nebraska.Code() Sessions tagged automation

Automating Security Defenses -- Letting Your Web Application Fight Back

How quickly does your application respond to security threats?

Most applications rely on security logs (assuming they are present) sent to a monitoring repository, where they are correllated against other activity, analyzed for risk, and responded to when the monitoring team has time.

At that point, an attacker may already have breached the application, or gotten enough information to come back later. Instead, what if we allowed the application to block malicious activity automatically before it had time to become an issue?

In this session, I will present several strategies for developing traps and pitfalls within an application that can catch hacker behavior, and even block the offending user, before any damage is done.

Speaker

Nathaniel Shere

Nathaniel Shere

Technical Services Director, Craft Compliance

Automating Excel with Python

Microsoft Excel is used extensively in business. The Python programming language is a popular language that is easy-to-read and quick to learn.

You can use Python to read and write Excel documents without even having Excel installed. In this talk, you will learn how to do the following:

  • Read Excel spreadsheets
  • Create Excel spreadsheets
  • Edit existing Excel spreadsheets
  • Style text in cells
  • Automate the creation of charts in Excel
  • and more!

Speaker

Mike Driscoll

Mike Driscoll

Software Engineer, Teach Me Python LLC