Ensuring Elixir Application Security with Michael Lubas

In this discussion, Michael Lubas, the founder of paraxial.io, joins hosts Allen, Adi, and Sascha to discuss bot defense and security strategies for Elixir applications. Lubas emphasizes the need for small companies to have robust defenses against targeted bot attacks, which can lead to issues like credit card fraud. He explains that Cloudflare's 'man-in-the-middle' model has vulnerabilities that can be bypassed, hence the significance of integrating bot defense directly within the application. paraxial.io approaches this by incorporating bot detection and defense mechanisms that minimize runtime overhead. Moreover, Lubas explores other security topics relevant to everyday Elixir development, including static analysis, dependency vulnerability management, and using Elixir's tools for efficient data storage and retrieval, such as persistent term for shared memory access.