
The Application Security Podcast
Chris Romeo and Robert Hurlbut dig into the tips, tricks, projects, and tactics that make various application security professionals successful. They cover all facets of application security, from threat modeling and OWASP to DevOps+security and security champions. They approach these stories in an educational light, explaining the details in a way those new to the discipline can understand. Chris Romeo is the CEO of Devici and a General Partner at Kerr Ventures, and Robert Hurlbut is a Principal Application Security Architect focused on Threat Modeling at Aquia.
Latest episodes

Aug 13, 2021 • 36min
Mark Loveless -- Threat modeling in a DevSecOps environment.
Mark Loveless - aka Simple Nomad - is a security researcher and hacker. He's spoken at numerous security and hacker conferences worldwide, including Blackhat, DEF CON, ShmooCon, and RSA. He's been quoted in the press including CNN, Washington Post, and the New York Times. Mark joins us to discuss his series of blog posts on Threat Modeling at GitLab. We discuss his philosophical approach, framework choice (spoiler alert, it's a pared down version of PASTA), and success stories / best practices he's seen for threat modeling success. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Mark Loveless.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Aug 6, 2021 • 32min
Jeroen Willemsen -- Security automation with ci/cd
Jeroen Willemsen is a Principal Security Architect at Xebia. Jeroen is more or less a jack of all trades with an interest in infrastructure security, risk management, and application security. With a love for mobile security, he enjoys sharing knowledge on various security topics. Jeroen joins us to unpack security automation in a DevOps world. We discuss categories of tools, typical quick wins, potential downsides, and how dependency management specifically plays into automation. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Jeroen Willemsen.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 12min
Thinking back, Looking forward - A Balanced Approach to Securing our Software Future
Kevin Greene is the Director of Security Solutions at Parasoft and has extensive experience and expertise in software security, cyber research and development, and DevOps. He leverages his knowledge to create meaningful solutions and technologies to improve software security practices. Kevin and I had a conversation to discuss software security from the past and into the future. We cover how to make security easier for developers, SBOM, software minimalism, cyber resiliency, and so much more! We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Kevin Greene.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jun 11, 2021 • 36min
Jeevan Singh -- Threat modeling based in democracy
Jeevan Singh is a Security Engineer Manager at Segment, where he is embedding security into all aspects of the software development process. Jeevan enjoys building security culture within organizations and educating staff on security best practices. Before life in the security space, Jeevan had a wide variety of development and leadership roles over the past 15 years. Jeevan joins us to speak about self-serve threat modeling at Segment or threat modeling based in democracy. We discuss their focus with the program, how it fits in their dev methodology and their ultimate goal with the threat modeling program. We hope you enjoy this conversation with... Jeevan Singh.Additional Resources:https://github.com/segmentio/threat-modeling-traininghttps://segment.com/blog/redefining-threat-modeling/FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

May 21, 2021 • 39min
Dima Kotik -- Application Security and the Zen of Python
Dima Kotik is an Application Security Engineer at Security Journey and has been programming in Python for years. As he was working on building out Security Journey's Secure Coding with Python content, he came across the Zen of Python, a set of guidelines for how to program in Python. He wrote a blog post about how to apply application security to the Zen of Python, and then we recorded this interview to talk about the concept in more depth. We hope you enjoy this interview with....Dima Kotik.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

May 7, 2021 • 37min
Dustin Lehr -- Advocating and being on the side of developers
Before taking the plunge into information security leadership, Dustin Lehr spent over a decade as a software engineer and architect in a variety of industries, including retail, DoD, and even video games. This diverse background has helped him forge close partnerships with development teams, engineering leaders, and software security advocates while pursuing the organizational culture shift of building good security habits into daily work. Dustin joins us to talk about the challenges developers face with security and so much more. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Dustin Lehr.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apr 30, 2021 • 49min
Aaron Rinehart -- Security Chaos Engineering
Aaron Rinehart is expanding the possibilities of chaos engineering to cybersecurity. He began pioneering security in chaos engineering when he released ChaoSlingr during his tenure as Chief Security Architect at UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Rinehart is the O'Reilly Author on Security Chaos Engineering and has recently founded a chaos engineering startup called Verica with Casey Rosenthal from Netflix. Aaron joins us to explain what the heck security chaos engineering is. We explore the origin story of chaos engineering and security chaos engineering and how a listener starts with this new technique. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Aaron Rinehart.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apr 23, 2021 • 50min
Izar Tarandach and Matt Coles-- Threat Modeling: A Practical Guide for Development Teams
In this episode of the Application Security Podcast, we're joined by friends Izar and Matt, authors of the book "Threat Modeling: A Practical Guide for Development Teams." Izar is currently the Squarespace Principal Security Engineer. He lives in NY, where he enjoys telling people who separate security from development to get off his lawn. Matt is currently a Product & Application Security Engineer at Dell Technologies. Matt lives in Massachusetts, is an avid gamer, and enjoys time with his family when not thinking or talking to others about security. We discuss why they wrote the book, what it covers, the target audience, and how to wield the information within to threat model all the things. Robert and I both love the book, and highly recommend it, and on this episode, you'll hear why.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apr 16, 2021 • 36min
Charles Shirer -- The most positive person in security
Charles is a Senior Security Consultant for Red Siege. He has over 18 years of experience in IT. In his spare time, Charles does retro gaming and works on the SECBSD open source project, a penetration testing distro. He currently works as Staff at several Security Conferences, podcasts (GrumpyHackers) (Positively Blue Team Cast), and is a part of the MentalHealthHackers DeadPixelSec NovaHackers and HackingisNotaCrime Family. Charles joins us to talk about positivity in InfoSec. If you've never seen Charle's videos, you're missing out. We'll unpack what drives his positivity and how we as infosec / appsec people can embrace a more positive approach to our world. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Charles Shirer.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apr 9, 2021 • 46min
Leif Dreizler -- Tactical tips to shift engineering right
Leif Dreizler is the manager of the Product Security team at Segment. Leif got his start in the security industry at Redspin doing security consulting work and was later an early employee at Bugcrowd. He helps organize the Bay Area OWASP Chapter, the LocoMocoSec Conference, and the AppSec California conference. Leif caught our attention when he published an article called Shifting Engineering Right: What security engineers can learn from DevSecOps. In this interview, we focus in on the tactical tips and takeaways from the article, or how you as a security person can shift engineering right. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Leif Driezler.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~