
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

Jul 25, 2022 • 34min
Hillel Solow -- How to do AppSec without a security team
Hillel Solow is Chairman of the Board at ProtectOnce, where he helps guide product and security strategy. Hillel is a serial entrepreneur in the cybersecurity space, but his favorite thing is still writing code at 2 am. Hillel joins us to discuss how to do appsec without a security team. We explore the building blocks of an appsec program, and what appsec looks like for companies of different sizes, from startup to midsize to enterprise. Then dive into Hillel's most important advice for companies who can't afford a security person. We hope you enjoy this conversation with… Hillel Solow. FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jun 2, 2022 • 27min
Chris Romeo -- The Security Journey Story
In this episode of the Application Security Podcast, Chris Romeo walks through the origin story of Security Journey and shares some experiences taking a security startup from bootstrap to acquisition. Chris talks about how and why he started the company, what defining factors made Security Journey successful and why they're being acquired now. He ends by giving an overview of what to expect from Security Journey moving forward. We hope you enjoy this conversation with…Chris Romeo.Check out these resources for more information about the acquisition!Press Release: https://www.accesswire.com/702562/HackEDU-Acquires-Security-Journey-to-Provide-the-Most-Comprehensive-Application-Security-Training-Offering-Helping-Development-Teams-Deliver-Secure-Code-and-Protect-DataChris's Blog Post: https://www.securityjourney.com/post/hackedu-acquires-security-journeyJoe's Blog Post: https://www.hackedu.com/blog/hackedu-acquires-security-journey-to-create-industry-leading-application-security-offeringFOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

May 10, 2022 • 46min
Kristen Tan and Vaibhav Garg -- Machine Assisted Threat Modeling
In this episode of the Application Security Podcast, we talk to Kristen Tan and Vaibhav Garg from Comcast. They wrote a paper called "An Analysis of Open-source Automated Threat Modeling Tools and Their Extensibility from Security into Privacy". They join us to share their story about what they were doing and why they did it. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Kristen and VG. https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/analysis-open-source-automated-threat-modeling-tools-and-theirFOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

May 3, 2022 • 29min
Patrick Dwyer -- CycloneDX and SBOMs
Patrick is a Senior Product Security Engineer in the Application Security team at ServiceNow. He is also Co-Leader of the OWASP CycloneDX project. A lightweight Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) standard designed for use in application security contexts and supply chain component analysis.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apr 25, 2022 • 51min
Omer Gil and Daniel Krivelevich -- Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks
Daniel Krivelevich is a cybersecurity expert and problem solver, with 15+ years of enterprise security experience with a proven track record working with 100+ enterprises across multiple industries, with a strong orientation to Application & Cloud Security. Daniel co-Founded Cider Security as the company’s CTO. Cider is a startup focused on securing CI/CD pipelines, flows, and systems.Omer is a seasoned application and cloud security expert with over 13 years of experience across multiple security disciplines. An experienced researcher and public speaker, Omer discovered the Web Cache Deception attack vector in 2017. Omer leads research at Cider Security.We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Omer and Daniel. FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apr 19, 2022 • 43min
Josh Grossman -- Building a High-Value AppSec Scanning Program
Josh Grossman has over 15 years of experience in IT Risk and Application Security consulting, and he has also worked as a software developer. He currently works as CTO for Bounce Security, where he focuses on helping organizations build secure products by providing value-driven Application Security support and guidance.In his spare time, he is very involved with OWASP. He is on the OWASP Israel chapter board, he is a co-leader of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard project, and he has contributed to various other projects as well, including the Top 10 Risks, Top Ten Proactive Controls and JuiceShop projects. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Josh Grossman.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mar 15, 2022 • 43min
Alex Mor -- Application Risk Profiling at Scale
Alex Mor is a passionate cybersecurity defender or breaker depending on the time of day, providing expert technical guidance to product teams and building security in their platforms. Alex joins us to talk about application risk profiling. He defines what this concept is to help us understand it. Then we talk about how can you do application risk profiling at scale? Whether you have ten applications or 1500 applications? How do you bring this together and gain real true security value from this idea of profiling your applications? We hope you enjoyed this conversation with Alex Mor.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mar 9, 2022 • 33min
Brenna Leath -- Product Security Leads: A different way of approaching Security Champions
Brenna Leath is currently the Head of Product Security for a data analytics company where she sets the application security strategy for R&D and leads a team of security architects. Brenna originally joined us to talk about EO 14028 and the implications for private sector programs, BUT, we were chatting about security champions and product security leads, and we changed our focus to cover these topics instead. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Brenna Leath.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Feb 16, 2022 • 42min
Will Ratner -- Centralized container scanning
Will Ratner is a software security professional with extensive experience building and implementing security solutions across a myriad of industries including banking, media, construction, and information technology. In his current role at Atlassian, Will focuses on improving the vulnerability management process by building highly scalable and automated solutions for the enterprise. Will joins us to discuss a centralized approach he built for container scanning. We explore the challenges and lessons learned, building a scalable, enterprise-grade solution, and how to build something that developers will see value in. We hope you enjoy this conversation with...Will Ratner.FOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Feb 9, 2022 • 39min
Neil Matatall -- AppSec at Scale
Neil Matatall is an engineer with a background in security. He has previously worked at GitHub and Twitter and is a co-founder of Loco Moco Product Security Conference. Neil joins us for his second visit, to discuss account security at scale. He describes the underlying principles behind security at scale, how he worked to build a sign-in analysis feature, and how attacks were detected. We ended the conversation with an authentication lightning round, with Neil responding to various statements about authentication off the cuff! We hope you enjoy this episode with Neil Matatall.Check out our previous conversation with Neil Matatall. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1730684/8122595-neil-matatall-content-security-policyFOLLOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA: ➜Twitter: @AppSecPodcast➜LinkedIn: The Application Security Podcast➜YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApplicationSecurityPodcast Thanks for Listening! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~