Application Security Weekly (Audio)

The core focus of this podcast is to provide the listeners with food for thoughts for what is required for releasing secured cloud native applications - Continuous, Multi-layer, and Multi-service analysis and focusing not only on the code, but also on the runtime and the infrastructure. - Focus on the vulnerabilities that matter. The critical, exploitable ones. Use Context. - Choose the right remediation forms. It may come in different shapes Segment Resources: Oxeye Website for videos and content - www.oxeye.io   Exchange RCE, bulk pull requests to patch at scale, metrics from DORA, best papers from USENIX, implementing passkeys   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw214

Applications are the most frequent external attack vector for companies. However, application security can improve only if developers either code securely or remediate existing security flaws — unfortunately, many don’t receive training with proper security know-how. In this session, we will talk about the state of application security education and what you can do to secure what you sell. Segment Resources: - https://www.forrester.com/blogs/school-is-in-session-but-appsec-is-still-on-vacation/?ref_search=3502061_1663615159889 https://www.wisporg.com/events-calendar/2022/11/8/security-amp-risk-conference-forrester https://www.veracode.com/events/hacker-games https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/10/28/america-faces-a-cybersecurity-skills-crisis-microsoft-launches-national-campaign-to-help-community-colleges-expand-the-cybersecurity-workforce/ Wiz reveals authorization bypass in Oracle Cloud, Python 15-year old path traversal flaw, Prototype Pollution in Chrome, PS4 flaw reappears in PS5, Why security products fail Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw213

Appsec places a lot of importance on secure SDLC practices, API security, integrating security tools, and collaborating with developers. What does this look like from a developer's perspective? We'll cover API security, effective ways to test code, and what appsec teams can do to help developers create secure code. This segment is sponsored by ThreatX. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatx to learn more about them!   Appsec dimensions of the Uber breach, Rust creates a security team, MiraclePtr addresses C++ heap mistakes for Chrome, a critical reading of the NSA/CISA Supply Chain guidance, talking about careers   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw212

Go releases their own curated vuln management resources, OSS-Fuzz finds command injection, Microsoft gets rid of Basic Auth in Exchange, NSA provides guidance on securing SDLC practices, reflections on pentesting, comments on e2e   Shifting left has been a buzzword in the application security space for several years now, and with good reason – making security an integral part of development is the only practical approach for modern agile workflows. But in their drive to build security testing into development as early as possible, many organizations are neglecting application security in later phases and losing sight of the big picture. In this talk, Invicti’s Chief Product Officer Sonali Shah discusses the challenges and misunderstandings around shifting left, and provides tips on how organizations can implement web application security program without tradeoffs throughout the whole application security lifecycle. This segment is sponsored by Invicti. Visit https://securityweekly.com/invicti to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw211

We will review the primary needs for cloud security: - Guardrails against misconfiguration - Continuously Identify and Remediate Vulnerabilities in Cloud APIs, Apps, and Services - Observability, Protection, and Reporting against Compliance and Risk Policies - We will also review CNAPP -- Cloud Native Application Protection Platform -- and why companies need to take a closer look for the best cloud security Segment Resources: - https://www.datatheorem.com/news/2021/data-theorem-representative-vendor-cnapp-2021-gartner-innovation-insight-report   Twitter whistleblower complaint lessons for appsec (and beyond), the LastPass breach, building a culture of threat modeling, signed binaries become vectors for ransomware, a look back to the birth of Nmap and the beginning of Linux.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw210

The unique nature of cloud native apps, Kubernetes, and microservices based architectures introduces new risks and opportunities that require AppSec practitioners to adapt their approach to security tooling, integration with the CI/CD pipeline, and how they engage developers to fix vulnerabilities. In this episode, we’ll discuss how AppSec teams can effectively manage the transition from securing traditional monolithic applications to modern cloud native applications and the types of security tooling needed to provide coverage across custom application code, dependencies, container images, and web/API interfaces. Finally, we’ll conclude with tips and tricks that will help make your developers more efficient at fixing vulnerabilities earlier in the SDLC and your pen testers more effective. Segment Resources: https://www.deepfactor.io/kubernetes-security-essentials-securing-cloud-native-applications/ https://www.deepfactor.io/resource/observing-application-behavior-via-api-interception/ https://www.deepfactor.io/developer-security-demo-video/   Ideas on debugging with IDEs, Wiz.io shares technical details behind PostgreSQL attacks in cloud service providers, looking at the attack surface of source code management systems, a Xiaomi flaw that could enable forged payments, defensive appsec design from Signal, what targeted attacks mean for threat models when the targeting goes awry   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw209

Let's talk about adding security tools to a CI/CD, the difference between "perfect" and "good" appsec, and my upcoming book. Segment Resources: https://community.wehackpurple.com #CyberMentoringMonday on Twitter Microsoft fixes an old bounty from 2019, rewards almost $14M on bounties in the past year, and releases a security layer for Edge; Black Hat talks on bounties and desync attacks, Google's bounties for the Linux kernel, modifying browser behavior, and the Excel championships.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw208

In today's high-tech industries, security is struggling to keep up with rapidly changing production systems and the chaos that agile development introduces into workflows. Application security (AppSec) teams are fighting an uphill battle to gain visibility and control over their environments. Rather than invest their time in critical activities, teams are overwhelmed by gaps in visibility and tools to govern the process. As a result, many digital services remain improperly protected. In this episode, we plan to address and discuss the current state of AppSec, and point out a few common failure points. Afterwards we plan to discuss what agile AppSec looks like, and how a reorganization, and a shift in management strategy could greatly transform the field, and allow business to truly address the risk of under-protected software.   Segment Resources: https://appsecmap.com/   Nextauth.js account takeover due to parsing flaw, URL parsing flaw in Go's net/url, another path traversal, Slack exposes password hashes (whaaat!?), Twitter exposes 5.4 million accounts, ransomware and research against PyPI and GitHub, videos from fwd:cloudsec 2022.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw207

In our first segment, we are joined by Manish Gupt, the CEO and Co-Founder of ShiftLeft for A discussion of how the changes and advancements in static application security testing (SAST) and intelligent software composition analysis (SCA) have helped development and DevSecOps teams work better together to fix security issues faster! In the AppSec News: Multiple vulns in a smart lock, Office Macros finally disabled by default, data breach costs and threat modeling, designing migration paths for 2FA, & more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw206

Nikhil will be discussing the pain points that leaders in the application security space are facing, which can cover how software development has evolved, as well as how this has impacted development teams and security teams as well as the occurrence of shifting left. He would also like to speak to the solution he has found to this problem, specifically being that of developing a community, the Purple Book Community. This closely connects to the final topics he would like to cover, which include how breaches have continued to occur at an increasingly rapid pace, leading to the importance behind why and how companies should be prepared for when, not if, a cyber attack will occur. The talk will also cover how the Purple Book of Software Security came about and how it has now morphed into a global movement by security leaders, for security leaders, to develop secure software. Segment Resources: https://www.armorcode.com/ https://www.thepurplebook.club/ https://www.armorcode.com/what-is-appsecops https://www.armorcode.com/platform-overview https://www.armorcode.com/news https://www.armorcode.com/integrations   This week in the AppSec News: Pwn2own results, reading the DBIR for appsec insights, XMPP flaws in Zoom, $10M bounty for a blockchain bridge vuln, researcher puts malicious payloads in ancient packages, Argo patches JWT handling, & more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw199