I had the pleasure of attending DrupalCamp Atlanta 2016 in October. It was great to catch up with old friends, meet new people, and checkout some excellent presentations. I would like to thank the organizers and sponsors for making this event happen.

If you missed the event, I encourage you to checkout the session videos that were just posted. I also want to mention my presentation "The Story of an Insecure Module". I have included the abstract, video, and slide deck below. I am especially excited about the sandbox project Security Examples, which I hope will be something that the community can develop to show good and bad Drupal secure coding practices.

Abstract

There once was a Drupal module who wanted so badly to have a stable release, but they were insecure. As a useful and promising module to the Drupal community, they were so afraid that poor coding standards and lack of community reviews could lead to XSS, information disclosure, sql injection, and other vulnerabilities for their users.

The Drupal community is one of sharing and support. As a result, the module in this story takes the opportunity to learn and grow from the lessons of other modules and contributors to become much more secure and confident. The module becomes capable of being promoted to a full project and having a stable release. The community rejoices!

Come take a journey through this module's security audit and how their developer resolved each and every finding, following Drupal best practices for writing secure code.

Related drupal.org Security Examples sandbox
https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/shrop/2821723

Video

Slide deck

Blog Category: 

• Drupal
• Security