Dilemmas Everywhere! Get It Right or Get Pwned

Creating cyber security software is much more challenging than developing any other type of software, and there are various dilemmas and considerations to be taken into account when choosing the right components. Today, as the trend is to shift security to the left, knowledge in this area becomes more crucial for developers, UX designers, software architects, and anyone involved in this field. In this presentation, I combine my 13 years of R&D security experience with examples of recent breaches and discoveries in order to show the importance of making the correct decisions in each of the development stages for securing software.