Preventing Security Breaches – Talesh Seeparsan

Your host: Joseph Maxwell, Founder and CEO of SwiftOtter, Inc. Special Guest: Talesh Seeparsan, eCommerce Security Consultant and Strategist

Security is one of those topics like taxes where we have to just do it. Talking to someone like Talesh Seeparsan about security on our Magento sites, however, totally changes the game! We say this every time, but this might be one of our favorite episodes to date! Talesh gives us some insight into some of the biggest hacks he has encountered, and some tips on how to prevent security breaches.

Show Notes

0:00 Show Intro

1:46 Some of the big names in eCommerce Security

3:50 A typical day for Talesh

4:59 Some common examples of poorly-written code

6:23 The cost of a bug like a security breach

9:06 Quantifying an average breach 12:01 "The mind of an attacker"

14:37 The importance of keeping your extensions up to date

18:20 Humans tend to be the biggest security risk

19:51 Writing regular expressions with security in mind

22:41 Magecart attack

24:51 A security breach due to a reused password

27:56 The value in whitelisting specific IPs

29:56 Outro

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