Absolute AppSec

We are excited to have Brian C Reed, chief mobility office at NowSecure, as a special guest on the Absolute AppSec podcast. Brian has specialized in mobile security, and his company NowSecure works to secure apps, train developers in safe mobile security engineering. As a piece of his work in mobile security, Brian has helped strengthen OWASP MASVS and ADA MASA standards. He also has experience in...

Jeevan Singh (@askjeevansingh) returns to join Ken Johnson (cktricky on Twitter) and Seth Law (sethlaw) as a guest on the podcast! Jeevan is currently with Rippling, was previously the Director of Product Security at Twilio, and before that Segment. He has been a long-time leader in security and development communities, and currently heads up the @owaspvancouver group. Tune in for ways to improve...

When cktricky is away, the lojis will play. Stefan Edwards co-hosts an episode with Seth in what ends up bypassing the AI hype to discuss the current state of OWASP. In short, things are murky but the organization is useful and the industry should support some version of its efforts. A discussion on privacy and training AI, based on recent articles and books about Clearview AI. Don't miss this Ver...

Ken Johnson (cktricky) and Seth Law (@sethlaw) welcome Leif Dreizler back on the show! Leif recently became a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Semgrep (semgrep.dev) , spent the better part of a decade working in product security and security software engineering at Twilio and Segment (segment.io). He also is a podcast co-host for the 404 Security Not Found podcast.

Seth and Ken are back to review some recent news and community discussions. Specifically, the duo talks about the use of coding requirements and projects during interviews for application security. Both have had experience on both ends and have opinions. This is followed by reactions to the recent breach and data dumps from 23andMe. Finally, new AI tools are starting to emerge that will help secur...

Erik Cabetas, founder and managing partner of Include Security joins Ken Johnson (@cktricky on twitter) and Seth Law (@sethlaw). Erik has been running Include Security for the last decade, and before that comes from a path that includes time working with early security teams at MicroSoft and Fortify Software, blue-team stints with financial groups as well as heading security for an eCommerce firm....

Seth and Ken are joined last minute by Jason Haddix (@jhaddix). Conversion about DEF CON talks, use of LLMs in research, and recently released tools.

Ken (cktricky on Twitter) and Seth (sethlaw) welcome Cole Cornford (https://www.colecornford.com) to Absolute AppSec for a discussion on running a security startup and the future of security training for developers and organizations. Cole is the CEO and Founder of Galah Cyber (https://www.galahcyber.com.au) and an all around AppSec maestro, frequently presenting at conferences and contributing to...

Shlomi is back! Shlomi Shaki, GitHub’s head of Asia-Pacific-Japan advanced security sales and all around thoughtful observer of the world of application security is back on the podcast with Ken Johnson and Seth Law. A lively discussion on security vs. engineering and failures of security to meet development/business in the appropriate places. Suggestions for getting out of the way and letting secu...

Ken and Seth are back with another episode where they try _not_ to cover more on LLMs and AI. Specifically, talk about the basics of implementing security into an SDLC. A long conversation and personal experience from both Ken and Seth on time management and how to get into a flow when working on technical problems. Finally, some answers to questions on the future of AI in AppSec.

Seth and Ken run through their experiences implementing Machine Learning for different application security activities. A break down the duo's experience at DEF CON 31, interesting talks, and happy hour results.

A very special pre-DEF CON episode with @lojikil (aka Stefan Edwards). Seth and Stefan dig into various security aspects of artificial intelligence and the recent hype cycle around large language models (LLMs). A discussion of the recently released OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and its target audience. Finally, opinions on the recent news of ZAPs departure from OWASP and security tools in general.

A special episode with Brian Joe (brianwjoe on LinkedIn), head of product and co-founder of Impart Security (impart.security). Brian has a background with Signal Sciences, Fastly, and Verizon. He posts regularly on infosec, API and application security, among other topics at Security Boulevard.

With some interesting developments going on at RunReveal, Evan Johnson joins Seth and Ken to discuss monitoring of security logs (hurray! Seth's favorite Crocs and Socks topic) and RunReveal's open beta (as well as other AppSec topics).

Ken Johnson (@cktricky) and Seth Law (@sethlaw) host Brian Walter (@bdwalter), co-founder and CEO of OpenContext (opencontext.com), tech industry veteran with leadership stints at device-reputation company iovation (acquired by TransUnion), Xerox, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Lockheed Martin, among others. Discussion focuses on establishing product requirements for all aspects of an application, inc...

From depths comes a rumbling, and it carries the whisper of AppSec on its breath! Seth and Ken dig into approaches to conducting client scans and processing results. A review of recent research into EPP services for domain registrars along with the methodology for conducting code reviews and appsec research. Finally, some resources for threat modeling.

Join us for a special episode of Absolute AppSec with James Wickett (@wickett on twitter), the co-founder of DryRun Security (dryrun.security), creator of the Lonestar Application Security Conference, and all around infosec industry veteran.

Beware! It’s double ides of May! (Proviso being that you add the integers and not the 1/2s). Sponsored by @redpointsec, an application security firm that specializes in code security by and for coders. If you're looking for Web App or mobile Pentesting, developer training, smart contract or secure-code reviews, check them out: https://redpointsecurity.com. First topic: the new .zip top-level domai...

Hello! We’re just a podcast, standing in front of you, aching to be the SYN to your ACK. Seth and Ken are back to talk about how the PyPI repo is experiencing an attack from multiple malicious package uploads. Seth brings up the concept of watering hole attacks and how the IDE plugin is a growing attack vector. Solarwinds discussion follows. Learning about attacking AI models, cookie security basi...

Seth Law and Ken Johnson are back this week. In this show, Seth and Ken discuss what the RSA conference did (and did not) reveal about the current state of #applicationsecurity, #appsec, #crocsandsocks. Also a discussion of the ChatGPT breach as well as AI's role in generating ever more content (in this case with news sites).

Finally returning to the podcast after a couple weeks of travel, training, and speaking, Seth and Ken are back for more, including their own takes opinions on the decline of application security and the reported death of manual code reviews.

The dynamite duopoly that is Ken and Seth are back to take the AppSec news by storm. Starting with Seth's favorite topic of Auditing or Logging, Ken brings up the recent Okta vulnerability report related to plaintext logging of usernames and passwords. This is followed by a review of Troy Hunt's recent post on edge cases when interacting with 3rd-party services, which the duo extrapolates to secur...

Joining Seth and Ken is Shlomi Shaki, a tech exec with GitHub who directs sales resources related Application Security and Product Security in APJ region. Discussion revolves around adoption of security tools and the struggles of securing software from both a tooling and process perspective.

Ken Johnson (@cktricky on twitter) and Seth Law (@sethlaw) interview Haseeb Awan (@haseeb) founder and CEO of Efani, a mobile service provider focused on security.

A lot has happened since the 200th (!!!) episode of the podcast, so we are bring another episode with a discussion of recent events, sites, and interesting finds. First up is a discussion of recent breaches, including some stories related to consumer rewards programs and weaknesses in that space. This is followed by a discussion on responsibility of package managers (e.g. npm, pip) for disclosure...