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Brian Vermeer

Staff Developer Advocate

Brian is well-known in the Java community. He is a Developer Advocate for Snyk, Java Champion, and Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience creating and maintaining (web)applications. He is passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming, and Cybersecurity. Brian is a JUG leader for the Virtual JUG and the NLJUG. He also co-leads the DevSecCon community and is a community manager for Foojay. He is a regular international speaker at mostly Java-related conferences like JavaOne, Devnexus, Devoxx, Jfokus, JavaZone, and many more.

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Unsafe deserialization vulnerability in SnakeYaml (CVE-2022-1471)

December 14, 2022

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How to create SBOMs in Java with Maven and Gradle

October 31, 2022

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Reviewing CVE-2022-42889: The arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Apache Commons Text

October 18, 2022

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How to use Java DTOs to stay secure

October 11, 2022

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Best practices for managing Java dependencies

August 26, 2022

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10 best practices to build a Java container with Docker

August 24, 2022

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Controlling your server with a reverse shell attack

August 10, 2022

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Exploring CVE-2022-33980: the Apache Commons configuration RCE vulnerability

July 8, 2022

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Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for your Java Application

June 27, 2022

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Spring4Shell extends to Glassfish and Payara: same vulnerability, new exploit

April 8, 2022

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Spring4Shell: The zero-day RCE in the Spring Framework explained

April 1, 2022

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How to do password hashing in Java applications the right way!

March 24, 2022