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New England Software Symposium

May 3 - 4, 2024

Securing the Digital Landscape: A Deep Dive into OWASP Top 10 for Applications, APIs, and LLMs

Saturday - May 4 1:00 PM EDT - ESSEX

Join us for an immersive journey into the heart of modern cybersecurity challenges. In this groundbreaking talk, we delve into the intricacies of securing your digital assets with a focus on three critical domains: applications, APIs, and Large Language Models (LLMs).

As developers and architects, you understand the paramount importance of safeguarding your systems against evolving threats. Our session offers an exclusive opportunity to explore the industry-standard OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities tailored specifically to your domain.

Uncover the vulnerabilities lurking within your applications, APIs, and LLMs, and gain invaluable insights into mitigating risks and fortifying your defenses. Through live demonstrations and real-world examples, you'll witness firsthand the impact of security breaches and learn proactive strategies to combat them.

Whether you're a seasoned architect seeking to fortify your organization's security posture or a developer striving to build resilient systems, this talk equips you with the knowledge and tools essential for navigating the complex landscape of cybersecurity.

Agenda

  • OWASP Top 10 Overview

    • Introduction to OWASP
    • Significance of OWASP Top 10
    • Overview of OWASP Top 10 for Applications, APIs, and LLMs

  • OWASP Top 10 for Application Security

    • Presentation: Common Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Strategies
    • Demonstration: Live Examples of Application Security Vulnerabilities

  • OWASP Top 10 for API Security

    • Presentation: Key Challenges in API Security and Best Practices
    • Demonstration: Illustration of API Security Vulnerabilities and Attacks

  • OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (Large Language Models)

    • Presentation: Unique Security Concerns in LLM Applications
    • Demonstration: Showcase of LLM Security Vulnerabilities and Risks

  • Q&A and Discussion

    • Open Floor for Questions and Discussion

  • Conclusion

    • Summary of Key Takeaways
    • Call to Action: Implementing Security Best Practices
Rohit Bhardwaj

Rohit Bhardwaj

Director, AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce | Author | Enterprise AI

About Rohit Bhardwaj

Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.

Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.

Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)

Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/ 

Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.

As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.

Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.

Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1