Introducing our Third Speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Bhushan Jawle.
One of the greatest strengths of WordPress is its simplicity. It is easy to install, start & keep publishing new content. No wonder it commands almost 27.5% of the web! However that is where most of the site owners stop thinking about WordPress.
And then, one day, you open browser, enter your URL and there is “Internal Server Error”! (HTTP 500).
Do you know someone in this situation? OR perhaps encountered it yourself?
Most of the times, security doesn’t figure out in discussion before, because site owner, just getting started with building an audience, thinks, “He/she is not important enough” to hack.
OR maybe they followed hardening instructions word-by-word and were still hacked!
(Trust me he did that, and was still hacked)
In this talk, Bhushan will share some of his learning in this area. He will cover some such common myths around security. He will also briefly cover 3 common types of hacks/injections along with some free/open source tools you can use to identify, rectify and stay safe.
In summary, Bhushan will walk you through some learning and do’s and don’ts in keeping site secure.
About Bhushan Jawle
Bhushan is a Computer Engineer by education, with over 21 years of professional experience.
He started programming when DOS was the only operating systems on personal computers.
Starting with C, and has worked on various languages including (assembly) C++, VC++, Java, Javascript and PHP and has been working on web development since early 2001 (Sun Certified Java Developer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer).
He has worked on various time critical systems in investment banking domain including algorithmic trading and led a team which was amongst the first to send algorithmic orders in India on NSE & BSE.
Out of his 15 years of experience in investment banking technologies, he has spent almost a decade in Tokyo(Japan), leading to almost compulsive focus on Kaizen (continuous improvement) and speaks conversational Japanese.
Bhushan believes in philosophy of Open Source (“Free as in speech”), and runs a web & mobile development firm Sanganak Technologies LLP, which specializes in WordPress, Yii and React Native.
Apart from technology, he is a father, husband, singer (Kishore Kumar & RD Burman fan), mimicry artist, a Toastmaster, a voracious reader and plans to read 50 new books in 2017.
You can tweet him @bhushanjawle