Boris

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Boris is a true Python addict. Boris enjoyed working on scalability issues of a machine-learning infrastructure in the past. He is also a SaltStack lover, and you will probably meet him in various meetups!

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Developer security best practices: how to validate input data in Python

Boris
September 17, 2019

If you’re building an application that accepts user or third-party input, a crucial consideration for security is ensuring that you properly validate that input. You want to make sure that…

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Developer security best practices: protecting against timing attacks

Boris
September 4, 2019

One of the great things about security is that there is always more to learn. When you’re protecting your applications and users, understanding the kinds of attacks bad actors may…

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Behind the Scenes: Building a Dynamic Instrumentation Agent for Python

Boris
January 24, 2017

TL;DR Building a Python Dynamic Instrumentation Agent is no easy task. At Sqreen we’re building an agent based on dynamic instrumentation in order to detect and block security issues inside…

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Pyramid Framework support in Sqreen's security solution for Python

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Pyramid Security: announcing our Pyramid framework support for Python

Boris
January 17, 2017

We are pleased to announce the support of Pyramid in the Sqreen Python agent version 1.0.1. (An annoying last minute regression forced us to release a v1.0.1…) It comes with…

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Monitor your application security in New Relic Insights

Boris
December 9, 2016

Companies are continuously collecting and storing more and more data about every aspect of their web applications, from error monitoring to business KPIs such as performance monitoring. Each monitoring platform…

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Freeze your Python with str.encode and threads

Boris
July 12, 2016

While working on the sqreen.com Python agent, I discovered a rather nasty, but fun to analyse bug that lead me deep into Python internals. The nasty bug I was working…

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