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Aug 6, 2024 • 1h 10min

Building Successful Security Champions Programs - Marisa Fagan - ASW #294

Even though Security Champions programs look very different across organizations and maturity levels, they share core principles for becoming successful. Marisa shares her experience in building these programs to foster a positive security culture within companies. She explains the incentives and rewards that lead to more engagement from champions and the benefits that come from so many people being engaged with security. Segment Resources: OWASP Security Champions Guide - Get Involved! - https://owasp.org/www-project-security-champions-guidebook/#div-getinvolved OWASP Security Champions Guide - LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/owasp-security-champions-guide/ The Security Champions Success Guide - https://securitychampionsuccessguide.org/ "Building a Successful Security Champions Program... What Does it Take?" - https://www.katilyst.com/post/building-a-successful-security-champions-program-what-does-it-take The code curation considerations of removing abandoned protocols in OpenSSL, kernel driver lessons from CrowdStrike's crash, choosing isolation primitives, cross-cache attacks made possible by SLUBStick, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-294
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Jul 30, 2024 • 45min

A CISO's Perspective on AI, Appsec, and Changing Behaviors - ASW #293

Modern appsec isn't modern because security tools got shifted in one direction or another, or because teams are finding and fixing more vulns. It's modern because appsec is meeting developer needs and supporting the business. Paul Davis talks about how AI is (and isn't) changing appsec, the KPIs that reflect outcomes rather than being busy, and the importance of communication for security teams. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-293
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Jul 23, 2024 • 1h 5min

Where Generative AI Can Actually Help Security (And Where It Doesn't) - Farshad Abasi, Allie Mellen - ASW #292

Generative AI has produced impressive chatbots and content generation, but however fun or impressive those might be, they don't always translate to value for appsec. Allie brings some realistic expectations to how genAI is used by attackers and can be useful to defenders. Segment resources: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/generative-ai-will-not-fulfill-your-autonomous-soc-hopes-or-even-your-demo-dreams/ https://www.forrester.com/blogs/top-5-things-you-need-to-know-about-how-generative-ai-is-used-in-security-tools/ https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-blob-is-poisoning-the-security-industry/ SAPwned demonstrates tenets of tenant isolation, a weak login flow puts Squarespace domains at risk, how AIs might (or might not) be useful for fixing code, getting buy-in for infosec investments, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-292
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Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 9min

Producing Secure Code by Leveraging AI - Stuart McClure - ASW #291

How can LLMs be valuable to developers as an assistant in finding and fixing insecure code? There are a lot of implications in trusting AI or LLMs to not only find vulns, but in producing code that fixes an underlying problem without changing an app's intended behavior. Stuart McClure explains how combining LLMs with agents and RAGs helps make AI-influenced tools more effective and useful in the context that developers need -- writing secure code. Cloudflare's 2024 appsec report, reasoning about the Cyber Reasoning Systems for the upcoming AIxCC semifinals at DEF CON, lessons in secure design from post-quantum cryptography, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-291
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Jul 9, 2024 • 1h 13min

State Of Application Security 2024 - Sandy Carielli, Janet Worthington - ASW #290

Sandy Carielli and Janet Worthington, authors of the State Of Application Security 2024 report, join us to discuss their findings on trends this year! Old vulns, more bots, and more targeted supply chain attacks -- we should be better at this by now. We talk about where secure design fits into all this why appsec needs to accelerate to ludicrous speed. Segment resources https://www.forrester.com/blogs/ludicrous-speed-because-light-speed-is-too-slow-to-secure-your-apps/ They're also conducting a survey on how orgs use Top 10 lists. Provide your response at https://forrester.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Z7ARUQjuzNQf0q Polyfill loses trust after CDN misuse, an OpenSSH flaw reappears, how to talk about secure design from some old CocoaPods vulns, using LLMs to find bugs, Burp Proxy gets more investment, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-290
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Jun 25, 2024 • 1h 1min

OAuth 2.0 from Protecting APIs to Supporting Authorization & Authentication - Aaron Parecki - ASW #289

OAuth 2.0 is more than just a single spec and it's used to protect more than just APIs. We talk about challenges in maintaining a spec over a decade of changing technologies and new threat models. Not only can OAuth be challenging to secure by default, but it's not even always inter-operable. Segment Resources: https://oauth.net/2.1 https://oauth.net/specs/ https://oauth2simplified.com/ https://oauth.net/2/dpop/ https://oauth.net/2/oauth-best-practice/ https://oauth.net/fapi/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FedCM_API Thoughts on shared responsibility models after the Snowflake credential attacks, looking at AI's current and future role in offensive security, secure by design lessons from Apple's Private Cloud Computer, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-289
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Jun 18, 2024 • 37min

Learning EBPF - Liz Rice - ASW Vault

Check out this interview from the ASW Vault, hand picked by main host Mike Shema! This segment was originally published on April 4, 2023. Following on from her successful title "Container Security", Liz has recently authored "Learning eBPF", published by O'Reilly. eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that is enabling a whole new generation of infrastructure tools for networking, observability, and security. Let's explore eBPF and understand its value for security, and how it's used to secure network connectivity in the Cilium project, and for runtime security observability and enforcement in Cilium's sub-project, Tetragon. Segment Resources: Download "Learning eBPF": https://isovalent.com/learning-ebpf Buy "Learning eBPF" from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-eBPF-Programming-Observability-Networking/dp/1098135121 Cilium project: https://cilium.io Tetragon project: https://tetragon.cilium.io/ Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-asw-11
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Jun 11, 2024 • 39min

Microsoft Recall's Security & Privacy, Hacking Web APIs, Secure Design Pledge - ASW #288

Looking at use cases and abuse cases of Microsoft's Recall feature, examples of hacking web APIs, CISA's secure design pledge, what we look for in CVEs, a nod to PHP's history, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-288
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Jun 4, 2024 • 1h 12min

Open Source Software Supply Chain Security & The Real Crisis Behind XZ Utils - Idan Plotnik, Luis Villa, Erez Hasson - ASW #287

Open source has been a part of the software supply chain for decades, yet many projects and their maintainers remain undersupported by the companies that consume them. The security responsibilities for project owners has increased not only in dealing with security disclosures, but in maintaining secure processes backed by strong authentication and trust. Segment Resources: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/lessons-xz-utils-achieving-more-sustainable-open-source-ecosystem https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/03/29/reported-supply-chain-compromise-affecting-xz-utils-data-compression-library-cve-2024-3094 https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge https://tidelift.com/about/press-releases/tidelift-study-reveals-that-despite-increasing-demands-from-government-and-industry-60-of-maintainers-are-still-unpaid-volunteers https://blog.tidelift.com/paying-maintainers-the-howto Application security posture management has quickly become a hot commodity in the world of AppSec, but questions remain around what is defined by ASPM. Vendors have cropped up from different corners of the AppSec space to help security teams make their programs more effective, improve their security postures, and connect the dots between developers and security. Apiiro is setting the diamond standard for ASPM, combining deep code analysis, runtime context, and native risk detection with a 100% open platform approach, providing more valuable prioritization and a more powerful policy engine. This segment is sponsored by Apiiro. Visit https://securityweekly.com/apiirorsac to learn more about them! Bots accounted for nearly half of all internet traffic in 2023, with bad bot traffic rising for a fifth consecutive year. Malicious bot activity is a significant risk for businesses as it can result in account compromise, higher infrastructure and support costs, customer churn, and more. Tune in to learn about the security risks of these automated threats and what trends Imperva has monitored. This segment is sponsored by Imperva. Visit https://securityweekly.com/impervarsac to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-287
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May 28, 2024 • 31min

Securing Shadow Apps & Protecting Data - Guy Guzner, Pranava Adduri - ASW Vault

With hundreds or thousands of SaaS apps to secure with no traditional perimeter, Identity becomes the focal point for SaaS Security in the modern enterprise. Yet with Shadow IT, now recast as Business-Led IT, quickly becoming normal practice, it’s more complicated than trying to centralize all identities with an Identity Provider (IdP) for Single Sign-On (SSO). So the question becomes, “How do you enable the business while still providing security oversight and governance?” This segment is sponsored by Savvy. Visit https://securityweekly.com/savvy to learn more about them! CISOs encounter challenges in securing data amidst the rapid growth driven by Cloud and GenAI applications. In this segment, we will delve into how Bedrock Security powers frictionless data security, empowering CISOs to securely manage data sprawl, allowing their businesses to operate at optimal speed, without compromising security. Segment Resources: Bedrock Security: https://www.bedrock.security/ Bedrock Security X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bedrocksec Bedrock Security LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bedrocksec/ House Rx (customer) Case Study: https://tinyurl.com/35v48wx7 Introductory Whitepaper: https://tinyurl.com/5yjeu92b Innovation Sandbox 2024:  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240402284910/en/Bedrock-Security-Named-RSA-Conference-2024-Innovation-Sandbox-Finalist This segment is sponsored by Bedrock Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/bedrockrsac to learn more about them! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-asw-10

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