Frederik Braun (Mozilla)

In this talk, we will examine web security through the browser's perspective. Various browser features have helped fix transport security issues and increase HTTPS adoption: Encouragements in the form of providing more exciting APIs exclusively to Secure Context or deprecating features (like with Mixed Content Blocking) have brought HTTPS adoption to over 90% in ten years.

With these successful interventions as the browser's carrots and sticks - rewards for secure practices and penalties for insecure ones - we will then identify what academia and the industry can do to further apply security improvements. In particular, we will look at highly prevalent security issues in client code, like XSS and CSRF. In the end, we will see how the browser can play an instrumental role in web security improvements and what common tactics and potential issues exist.:

Speaker's Biography: Frederik Braun builds security for the web and Mozilla Firefox in Berlin. As a contributor to standards, Frederik is also improving the web platform by bringing security into the defaults with specifications like the Sanitizer API and Subresource Integrity. Before Mozilla, Frederik studied IT-Security at the Ruhr-University in Bochum where he taught web security and co-founded the CTF team fluxfingers.

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