{"id":885,"date":"2015-09-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=885"},"modified":"2015-09-19T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:37:59","slug":"featured-speaker-ben-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/featured-speaker-ben-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Ben Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fcf2c7b3195ff9058d29af3b8a49fc43?s=100&amp;r=pg&amp;d=mm\" alt=\"\" \/>&#8220;Security Analyst and Remediation Lead at <a href=\"https:\/\/sucuri.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sucuri Inc.<\/a> I help clean and protect websites and spend my work day identifying &amp; expunging malware to help make the Internet a safer place to be. I am passionate about infosec, online security\/privacy issues and helping people learn cool things.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Presentation:\u00a0Building a Better Security Posture<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve worked at Sucuri for nearly two years and have helped clean thousands of websites. Although we work with all platforms WordPress is the most common one due to its popularity. I see website owners making a lot of the same mistakes and many of these issues can be prevented with some simple solutions and an improved security posture\/attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What unique perspective are you bringing to this talk?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m one of the guys that cleans your site when it becomes infected \ud83d\ude09 I&#8217;d like to help bring attention to the importance of security and encourage website owners to consider it a priority from day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s one really cool thing people will discover during your session?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;As attacks on everyday WordPress sites continue to evolve website owners need to take steps to ensure the security of their data. I\u2019ll explore common issues that I see and simple\/effective solutions that site owners can employ to ensure that they are not low-hanging fruit for attackers and that their website\u2019s reputation is protected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Sharing my knowledge and experience with those who can benefit from it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Security Analyst and Remediation Lead at Sucuri Inc. I help clean and protect websites and spend my work day identifying &amp; expunging malware to help make the Internet a safer place to be. I am passionate about infosec, online security\/privacy issues and helping people learn cool things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UjGY-eh","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}