In this episode, Allen, Adi, and Sascha are joined by Michael Lubas, the founder of paraxial.io, as they delve into the world of bot defense. Michael highlights the importance of bot defense, especially for small companies who are often deliberately targeted. The group examines the issues with "man-in-the-middle" solutions like Cloudflare and how this can be avoided by having bot defenses built into the application itself - the approach paraxial.io is taking. He explains how paraxial's bot detection and defense work on a high level, how it tries to reduce the runtime overhead to a minimum, and what other security topics are relevant for the day-to-day Elixir developer.
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Links

• Elixir and Phoenix Application Security Platform
• GitHub - michalmuskala/plug_attack: A plug building toolkit for blocking and throttling abusive requests
• GitHub - nccgroup/sobelow: Security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework
• GitHub - mirego/mix_audit
• mix hex.audit - Hex v2.0.6
• GitHub - dimitarvp/trie: A basic Elixir implementation of the Trie data structure
• Phoenix Application Security
• Securing Elixir/Phoenix Applications: 5 Tips to Get Started
• persistent_term

Get in touch with Michael Lubas

•  [email protected]
• LinkedIn: Paraxial.io
• LinkedIn: Michael Lubas
• Twitter: @paraxialio
• Paraxial.io

Picks

• Adi - Hogwarts Legacy
• Adi - Captain Sonar Game
• Allen - Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo on Steam
• Michael - 3Blue1Brown (YouTube Channel)
• Michael - Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition
• Sascha - Disco Elysium
• Sascha - GitHub - ExHammer/hammer: An Elixir rate-limiter with pluggable backends

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