AccidentalCISO on BrakeSecEd, talking Leadership, SaaS development, and Appsec

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Recorded: 28 Jan 2024

Youtube VOD: https://youtube.com/live/uX7odQTBkyQ

Questions and topics:

1. Let’s talk about Mindful Business Podcast

   1. What’s the topics you cover?

2. Topic #1: discuss your experiences when you were a new leader.

   1.  What worked? What didn't? What would you have done differently?

   2. Do you emulate your manager's style? What have been your go-to management resources? 

   3. What is a good piece of advice that you’ve been given or that you impart to others that relates to leadership?

3. Topic #2: building/Operating SaaS products (we can discuss securing them, what functions should be table stakes (data structures, logging, etc)

4. Topic #3: What are bare minimums for building ‘secure’ Saas products in your particular field? And how do you balance security with a positive user experience (i. e. getting customers to buy into MFA/OAUTH, OTA updates

5. Topic #4: Do many SaaS products get over-integrated? Is the need for integration override best practices in security? 

Additional information / pertinent LInks (Would you like to know more?):

1. Twitter/Mastodon: https://twitter.com/AccidentalCISO https://infosec.exchange/@accidentalciso

2. The Mindful Business Security Show: https://www.mindfulsmbshow.com/ https://twitter.com/mindfulsmbshow

Show points of Contact:

Amanda Berlin: @infosystir @hackershealth 

Brian Boettcher: @boettcherpwned

Bryan Brake: https://linkedin.com/in/brakeb 

Brakesec Website: https://www.brakeingsecurity.com

Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@brakeseced

Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/brakesec