He now runs enough infrastructure to ensure he never, ever gets a good night’s sleep, and sometimes doesn’t even get to snooze through Sunday mornings. Quintin has a keen interest in security, especially as it relates to web hosting. This has ranged from the vicissitudes of shared hosting to code reviews of popular blogging applications. He has previously presented at ISIG and Kiwicon 2009.

WordPress and You – Security tips for 2010.

The security of your web app has traditionally been considered to be the problem of the company whose servers they were hosted upon. However, while you can outsource the hosting of web apps, you cannot outsource the responsibility of ensuring that those apps are up to date and secure. This talk will focus on common issues that can and have lead to security flaws in web applications including wordpress in the past. Quintin will explain and describe these in detail and show you steps you can take to protect yourself.

If you want to get an idea of what can and should be done have a look at Hardening WordPress.