The Application Security Podcast

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! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Vandana Verma is the President of Infosec girls and Infosec Kids, a board of directors member for OWASP, and a leader for BSides Dehli. She joins us to introduce the OWASP Spotlight Series. With each video she creates, she highlights an OWASP project. We survey the projects she's covered and discuss a specific takeaway from each for the application security person. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Vandana Verma.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dr. Anita D’Amico is the CEO of Code Dx, which provides Application Security Orchestration and Correlation solutions to industry and government. Her roots are in experimental psychology and human factors. Her attention is now focused on enhancing the decisions and work processes of software developers and AppSec analysts to make code more secure. Anita joins us to discuss research she has done answering the question, "do certain types of developers or teams write more secure code?" Being a security culture fanatic, this topic is near and dear for me. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Dr. Anita D'Amico.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Alyssa Miller is a life-long hacker, security advocate, and cybersecurity leader. She is the BISO for S&P Global ratings and has over 15 years of experience in security roles. She is heavily involved in the cybersecurity community as an international speaker, author, and advocate. Alyssa joins us to talk about bringing security to DevOps and the CI/CD pipeline. We talk about the success of the DevOps transformation, mistakes AppSec teams make with DevOps and explore the possible idea that DevSecOps is its own silo. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Alyssa Miller.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Liran Tal is an application security activist and long-time proponent of open-source software. He is a member of the Node.js security working group, an OWASP project lead, author of Essential Node.js Security, and O’Reilly’s Serverless Security. He is leading the developer advocacy team at Snyk in a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security. Liran joins us to talk about cloud-native and application security. We begin by defining cloud-native and the changes it is causing. We then get into threats in a cloud-native world and the role of developers and AppSec. We hope you enjoy this conversation with…. Liran Tal.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For this episode, Robert and I decided to talk about an article I wrote called "DevOps security culture: 12 fails your team can learn from". We hope you enjoy this walkthrough of the 12 fails. If we missed any, hit us up on Twitter and let us know what we should add to the list.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jim Routh has built software security programs at some of the biggest brands in the world. He has served as CISO or CSO six different times in his career, always staying close to his cyber and software security roots. Jim has hung up his CISO badge and now focuses on serving on boards and advising security-focused startups. Jim’s original AppSec podcast episode is our #1 listened to of all time. Having the opportunity to interact with Jim and absorb his vast wisdom and knowledge is a treat for everyone. At the end of this interview, my immediate thought was to go back and listen to this one again. Jim talks with us about the impact of DevSecOps on the CISO, security controls for a devsecops pipeline model, and “shift left” still the dominant theme for software security. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Jim Routh.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Andrew van der Stock has been around the world of Application Security for quite a long time. In 2020, he took over as the Executive Director of OWASP, and he's working from within the organization to further the mission of taking application security to the masses. We discuss Andrew's OWASP origin story and he defines OWASP and the OWASP core mission. We talk membership, the future, and drop some details about the upcoming 20th anniversary of OWASP. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Andrew van der Stock.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~