In this daylong session, veteran CF Troubleshooter Charlie Arehart will guide you through understanding and resolving several of the most common problems that befall nearly all ColdFusion shops at some point, whatever version you may be running (2018, 2016, 11, or earlier).

Besides learning the problems, their causes, and solutions, we will review as well key diagnostic mechanisms that are either built-in or easily made available. Most important, we’ll see how to connect what the diagnostics report to the real underlying cause of problems.

Among the problems we’ll address are :

Among the diagnostic tools we’ll introduce along the way will be:

Students wishing to follow along with demonstrations must bring a laptop. Trial editions of the software to be used (including ColdFusion) will be provided in advance or at the event (for windows and Linux). We hope to be able to offer the option of a pre-configured VM with key programs pre-installed.

Bring your laptop and get your hands dirty learning how to find and fix security vulnerabilities in your ColdFusion codebases. In this full day session you will learn about several classes of web application security vulnerabilities and how they pertain to CFML. Using a vulnerable CFML web application prebuilt for training, you will learn what red flags to look for in the code. Next you will see first hand how attackers may exploit the vulnerabilities. Finally you’ll learn techniques for improving the security of your CFML code. Students wishing to follow along with demonstrations must bring a laptop.