FTC Announces Agenda for Nov. 5 Start With Security Conference in Austin

Commissioner Terrell McSweeny will deliver opening remarks at the FTC Start with Security conference in Austin Nov. 5, an agency news release said Wednesday. Speakers will include those who “helped build and run security programs at large-scale enterprises and rapid-growth startups in Austin, like Dell, RetailMeNot, Honest Dollar, and National Instruments, along with top security experts,” it said. Panelists will address how startups can “build a culture of security, including how they can effectively model threats, train their developers, and ensure secure coding practices; scale security testing when they are growing rapidly and continuously iterating their products; work with third-party code and bug reports, and effectively address vulnerabilities; and move past bug hunting to embrace key security features,” it said. A full list of speakers is available on the event website. The conference begins at 9:30 a.m. and will end at 4 p.m. at the University of Texas-Austin’s AT&T Conference Center, it said.