Drupal

Cryptoparty, Melbourne 27th Oct

@chrischinch

Overview

‘Drupal’ is a Trademark

Released under GPL license, as are all modules and themes

Drupal distributions

A healthy consultant / developer ecosystem

Acquia and commercialisation

You’re in good company…

Why use an Open Source CMS?

Freedom

After a bit of work

Especially with Drupal

Data in

CSV, XML, RSS, JSON, KML, OPML, RDF, SQL, SSO, Oauth, OpenID, Social Logins, phpBB, Joomla, Wordpress, LiveJournal…

And more!

Data Out…

CSV, RSS, XML, JSON, TXT, Serialize, Node Code

MORE

Security process

Open source

Security Team

Most vulnerabilities, “Bad practice”

drupalsecurityreport.org

Security Features

Passwords

Private keys

Cookies / Sessions

Passwords never emailed

Cross-site forgery / Scripting

Data Sanitisation

Database Abstraction Layer

Securing

Disabling PHP Filters

Check HTML Filters

Captcha / Mollom

Status Report

Error Logs

Privacy

Basic user tracking by default

Many other initial flaws slowly resolved

Public & private fields

Highly configurable permissions

Cookies / EU compliance

More?

Drupal Melbourne

www.meetup.com/drupalmelbourne

Australia’s first ‘official’ Drupal Con

Sydney, 6th Feb 2013