Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett is a principal of OmniTI, where he leads the web application security practice. Prior to joining OmniTI, he was the founder of Brain Bulb, a PHP consulting company specializing in web application security services.
Chris is a leader in the PHP community – a popular speaker at industry conferences worldwide, the founder of the PHP Security Consortium, a contributor to the Zend Framework, and an author of the Zend PHP Certification.
A prolific writer, he is the author of the critically-acclaimed Essential PHP Security (O'Reilly) and HTTP Developer's Handbook (Sams). His writing has also appeared in numerous articles for php|architect and PHP Magazine, as well as a number of other popular books including Programming PHP (O'Reilly) and PHP Cookbook (O'Reilly).
Blog Posts
Inspecting and Hacking HTTP
--There are numerous reasons you might want to inspect HTTP when debugging a problem. If you've ever tried to debug problems with sessions, cookies, ...
Security 2.0 in Cincinnati
--I'll be visiting Cincinnati briefly tomorrow (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) to give my talk entitled Security 2.0 at the local PHP user group, OINK-PUG. Elizab...
End of Life for PHP 4
--Today is 8/8/8, which is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is that it marks the end of PHP 4. What does this mean? It means yesterday's r...
OSCON Wrapup
--Another OSCON has come and gone. It was a very busy week filled with talks, work, social events, and everything in between. (Sleep is optional and ...
Miscellaneous
--I haven't been blogging much lately, and for the first time since I started this blog, I've only managed one post all month. There has been plenty ...
Who Created PHP?
--This past week, I noticed several feeds I poll for Planet Chris are broken. In a few cases, it's because the site is offline. In most cases, it's b...
OpenID with myVidoop
--I like OpenID. I've been an avid user (and consumer) of OpenID for well over a year now, but I've only recently found time to explore Vidoop, whose...
CSS Naked Day
--If you're wondering what happened to the design, it's gone! I'm participating in CSS Naked Day again to celebrate web standards and good design. Tr...
URLs Can Be Beautiful
--We launched a new web site for OmniTI on Monday, complete with a new identity designed by Jon Tan. As with most projects of this nature, this was a...
URLs Can Be Beautiful
--We launched a new web site for OmniTI on Monday, complete with a new identity designed by Jon Tan. As with most projects of this nature, this was a...
URLs Can Be Beautiful
--We launched a new web site for OmniTI on Monday, complete with a new identity designed by Jon Tan. As with most projects of this nature, this was a...
Kiwi Foo Camp
--My sunburned feet have healed, so that means it's time to recap my trip to New Zealand for the second annual Kiwi Foo Camp. My trip started in Auc...
CIO Magazine Trolls for Publicity
--All publicity is good publicity, right? I'm not so sure. Last week, CIO Magazine published an article on the advantages and disadvantages of the PH...
