Security Standards: Code, Ops & Communications
Ad-hoc practices no longer scale. This talk discusses three areas of Smart Contract Development where the Ethereum Community Standards help harden security: code, operations, and communications. By looking at what worked with large DAOs, technical specifications, and high-impact events, the attendees will leave with a concise, prioritized playbook for improving their security posture.
As Ethereum scales, immature practices leave protocols exposed. This session reveals how community-driven security standards can help transform three crucial areas of running any protocol - Code, Operations, Communications - from ad-hoc guesswork into repeatable safeguards.
Code. Harness ERC interface discipline, audited and battle-tested libraries, common patterns, and emerging technical specifications to eliminate entire exploit classes while the contracts are still in development.
Operations. Layer enterprise grade privilege configurations and InfoSec policies into your key management and software building processes: embedded fuzzing, formal-verification, on-chain monitors, security reviews across the development lifecycle, incident-response workflow, and much more.
Communications. Move beyond "GM" and “DM us on Twitter” with public disclosure policies, emergency hotlines, DAO security-council charters, and post-mortem transparency that preserve user trust.
Drawing on first-hand work with large DAOs and dissecting high-impact incidents we show precisely what works and can become a standard for others to learn from. Attendees leave with a concise, prioritised Standards Playbook ready to harden security from day one.