Have you been pwned?

SSW’s Matt Wicks discusses Troy Hunt’s ‘Have I been Pwned’ website:

– The internals of Have I Been Pwned
– What technologies are used to minimize the cost of running the service
– How Troy uses Cloudflare as a CDN (to use Azure less and avoid big $$$)
– The how and why it’s safe to check if your password has been pwned

About the speakers

About the speakers

Matt Wicks & Troy Hunt

Matt Wicks

Matt is an SSW Solution Architect, Certified ScrumMaster and one of four Microsoft certified DevOps fast track partner consultants in Australia.

He has been developing solutions using the full Microsoft stack since .NET 2 was in beta.

Troy Hunt

Troy is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, Pluralsight author and world-renowned internet security specialist. He spends his time teaching developers how to break into their own systems before helping to piece them back together to be secure against today’s online threats.

He’s also the creator of “Have I been pwned?”, the free online service for breach monitoring and notifications. Troy regularly blogs at troyhunt.com from his home in Australia.

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