Chief Scientist, Photobox GS
Chris Allen is an architect, innovator and engineer with over twenty years experience in the electronics, software, e-commerce and cloud computing industries.
As a co-founder of PhotoBox, he has been directly responsible for many of their most successful technical projects, including:
Design and implementation of their original commerce web site from the ground up.
Development of their proprietary system for storage and distribution of photo images - a system that has scaled to billions of images and petabytes of data.
Architecture of their software-as-a-service web application, now in its tenth successful year of operation.
Design of their innovative solution for massive scalability into the cloud - a system that allowed the power of the computing cloud to be exploited while allowing legacy systems to continue running unhindered.
Prior to PhotoBox, Chris designed software and hardware solutions for pharmaceutical and other industries and was also responsible for the CopyStation disk duplicator - a high-end mass duplication system with sales in over 20 countries.
Chris Allen Daily Schedule
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| GS AppSec Daily Scrum (Mon) Table 1 |
| GS AppSec Daily Scrum (Tue) Table 1 |
| GS AppSec Daily Scrum (Wed) Table 1 |
| GS AppSec Daily Scrum (Thu) Table 1 |
| GS AppSec Daily Scrum (Fri) Table 1 |
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| | Time slot over-subscribed | Using maps to define how to capture, detect and prevent 6 real-world security incidents Larch room | Threat model cheat sheets Kings room |
| Using JIRA-NeoVis to graph Threat Models |
| Wardley Mapping – a practical session on how to use value chain mapping Larch room |
| Using Jira to handle Incident Response - simulations |
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| Time slot over-subscribed | Creating a Steady-State Hypothesis Pedley room | Hands-on JIRA Schema refactoring Larch room |
| Time slot over-subscribed | API Threat Modeling Cheat Sheet Kings room | Akamai WAF & Ruleset Pedley room |
| Time slot over-subscribed | AWS Lambda Security Portland room | Using User Story Mapping for effective communication Larch room |
| Writing security tests to confirm vulnerabilities and fixes Pedley room |
| Using AI and ML for incident response Larch room |
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| Time slot over-subscribed | Hands on Chaos Experiments Pedley room | Create Wardley Maps for multiple security scenarios Larch room | Lessons learned from public bug bounties programmes 314 - Owasp Projects villa |
| | Securing AWS S3 Buckets Portland room |
| Time slot over-subscribed | JIRA Risk Workflow Portland room | Squad Modelling and Cross Functional Teams Pedley room |
| PBX-GS Offsite session 5 317 - Photobox villa |
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| PBX-GS Offsite session 1 314 - Owasp Projects villa |
| PBX-GS Offsite session 2 317 - Photobox villa |
| Create Perl Security Questions Montague room |
| PBX-GS Offsite session 4 317 - Photobox villa |
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| Create a Slack bot in Python 313 - DevSecCon villa |
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| | Using Threat Models for GDPR 317 - Photobox villa |
| Time slot over-subscribed | Using Neo4J Enterprise | Writing Checkmarx SAST rules 313 - DevSecCon villa |
| Using Veracode SAST Engine |
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