The Truth About Sessions

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Presented by:	Chris Shiflett
Date:	May 17, 13:45 - 14:45
Location:	Track #2

Have you ever had trouble debugging a session problem? Are you concerned about session fixation and session hijacking, but you don't know where to start? Do you want to know what's going on behind the scenes when you use sessions? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this talk is for you.

You'll first be given a fundamental introduction to HTTP, the challenges that maintaining state presents, and how cookies really work. Then you'll learn how to improve upon a basic session mechanism to safeguard against session-related attacks.