Designing Trustworthy User Agents for a Hostile Web
Eric Lawrence, Senior Program Manager, Internet Explorer Security Team, Microsoft
In a world where organized criminals and myriad misfits work tirelessly to exploit users via an alphabet soup of Web-delivered attacks, browser developers must make the right tradeoffs to deliver usable security. In this talk, I'll describe the attacks we see in the wild today, outline developing threats, and share my thoughts on future browser security investments. With examples from development of the world's most popular browser, I'll explore the challenges in bringing security innovation out of the lab and into real-world products, debunk some security myths, and describe how secure design principles are our only hope as the Web platform gets ever more powerful.
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title = {Designing Trustworthy User Agents for a Hostile Web},
year = {2009},
address = {Montreal, Quebec},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
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