Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering Infosec research and app security
Aaron Hnatiw joined the show to talk about being a security researcher, teaching application security with Go, and a deep dive on how engineers and developers can get started with infosec. Plus: white hat, black hat, red team, blue team…Aaron sorts it all out for us.
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Featuring:
- Aaron Hnatiw – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Aaron blessed us with a veritable slew of links to help Go developers level up their security game:
Race-The-Web (Also check out the accompanying practice site)
Go-fuzz (Check out their trophies section)
OWASP Top 10: (Counterpoint - Vulnerabilities beyond the OWASP Top 10)
SSRF as a Service: Mitigating a Design-Level Software Security Vulnerability
Interesting Go Projects and News
Fencing off Go Applied - A Practical Look at a Go Research Paper
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - K8GUARD (The guardian angel for Kubernetes)
Carlisia - Goman
Brian - WSLtty
Aaron - Visual Studio Code (with the Go plugin, of course)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!