Evolution of Cybersecurity and Empowering Developers for Security

Exploring the evolution of cybersecurity and the importance of empowering developers with tools and resources to effectively handle security responsibilities within their roles.

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Travis McPeak is a security generalist with over a decade of experience working at several companies including Databricks, Netflix, IBM, HP, and Symantec. He’s the Co-Founder and CEO of Resourcely, whose goal is to create a paved road to secure, efficient, and easy to manage cloud infrastructure. In this conversation, Travis shares his biggest takeaway from working at Netflix, the problem with overusing JIRA, and the importance of making security a shared responsibility between developers and security ops.

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0:00 Introduction

1:26 Travis’ background

2:10 View of industry

4:00 Netflix “paved road”

5:20 Lemur

8:00 Security at small orgs

11:36 Reactive security with JIRA

14:35 Measuring security

18:16 Inflection point

20:48 Demystifying the paved road

24:30 DevSecOps

30:40 Unifying the objective, shared responsibility