Application Security Weekly (Audio)

This week, we welcome Daniel Hampton, Senior Solutions Architect at Fastly, to discuss API Security: Understanding Threats to Better Protect Your Organization! In the AppSec News, Tyler Robinson joins Mike & John to discuss: HTTP/3 and QUIC, bounties for product abuse, Amazon Sidewalk security & privacy, security & human behavior, authentication bypass postmortem, M1RACLES, & more!   Show Notes: h...

This week, we welcome Manish Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder at ShiftLeft, to discuss Bringing Appsec to a Modern CI Pipeline! Appsec in a modern CI pipeline needs a combination of tools, collaboration, and processes to be successful. Importantly, it also needs to scale. We can't just shift responsibility left and assume that will be successful. So, how can an appsec team bring tools and security knowle...

This week, we welcome Aanand Krishnan, CEO at Tala Security, Inc., to discuss Third Party Software Risk on the Web! Web applications are highly dependent on third party content and JavaScript. This creates a significant set of vulnerabilities that attackers are exploiting. How do you prevent a Solarwinds type hack on your website?   In the AppSec News, CNCF releases a whitepaper on supply chain se...

While the vision for app security is relatively clear, executing on that vision is still somewhat of a work in progress. Fast-moving, interdependent pieces—custom code and open source packages, infrastructure and network configurations, user entitlements—make for complex systems. In this episode, we discuss the challenge in addressing each piece independently and consider how consolidated, multi-p...

Rey Bango will be digging into the developer security training conundrum based on his own experiences with secure coding and security training. He'll cover: • The types of security training that work • The role of security champions • How the security and development teams can work together to ensure code is create securely from the start In the AppSec News: Microsoft discloses "BadAlloc" bugs, ma...

We start with the article about "Researchers Secretly Tried To Add Vulnerabilities to Linux Kernel, Ended Up Getting Banned" and explore its range of issues from ethics to securing huge, distributed software projects. It's hardly novel to point out that bad actors can attempt to introduce subtle and exploitable bugs. More generally, we've also seen impacts from package owners who have revoked thei...

This week, we welcome Doug Barbin, Managing Partner at Schellman & Company, LLC, to discuss Supply Chain Management! Supply chain security isn't new, despite the renewed attention from the Solar Winds attack. It has old challenges, like having an accurate asset or app inventory, and new opportunities, like Software Bill of Materials. From consequences to code integrity, DevOps teams need to unders...

This week, we welcome Leif Dreizler - Engineering Manager, Product Security - Segment, to talk about Shifting Right: What Security Engineers Can Learn From DevSecOps! In the AppSec News, PHP deals with two malicious commits, SSO and OAuth attack vectors to remember for your threat models, zines for your DevSecOps education!   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw146 Segment Resources: https:/...

This week, we welcome Andrew van der Stock, Executive Director at OWASP Foundation, to talk about the OWASP Top 10 of 2021! The OWASP Top 10 2021 is in development. A public survey has just been released. We have finished collecting data. I would like to discuss what the plans are for the OWASP Top 10 2021, and when it will be released, and how you can get involved.   In the AppSec News, Security...

This week, we welcome Johanna Ydergard, VP of Detectify Crowdsource at Detectify, and Roberto Giachetta, Engineering Manager at Detectify, to discuss Approaching AppSec Like a Hacker! Security is struggling to keep up with securing modern web applications and the fast pace of wild web hacks. Detectify is building automated app scanners that can think like a hacker and shorten vulnerability detecti...

This week, we welcome John Morello, VP of Product at Palo Alto Networks, joins us to talk about Cloud Native Security Platforms! Modern appsec demonstrates the importance of a cloud native strategy for enterprise security and how much that strategy must integrate with DevOps tools and workflows. Security solutions need to come from a cohesive platform that addresses the problems DevOps teams face...

This week, we welcome Cynthia Burke, Compliance Manager at Capsule8, to discuss Privacy, Data Security & Compliance! In most IT shops, privacy, data security and compliance often resided under the same umbrella of ownership. While all 50 States in the US have data breach notification laws, we are seeing a shift in focus on data privacy globally. Privacy and data security compliance are often used...

This week, we welcome Ted Harrington, Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators, to discuss Hackable; How to do Application Security Right! In the Application Security News, Implementation pitfalls in parsing JSON, finding all forms of a flaw with CodeQL, more educational resources for hacking apps, engineering and product management practices for DevOps, & more!   Show Notes: https://s...

This week, we welcome Brandon Edwards, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Capsule8, to discuss Targeting, Exploiting, & Defending Linux! Linux is all over the place (sometimes surprising), why is targeting it different? What types of attacks are used? How can we defend against attacks on Linux? We can incorporate recent attacks against Sudo as a timely reference. In the Application Security News, D...

This week, we welcome Alissa Knight, Partner at Knight Ink, to discuss Being a Serial Entrepreneur, Business Leader, & Hacker! Alissa Knight has spent her career going against industry and social norms as both a Transgendered and Lesbian business leader and hacker. Learn more about her, her achievements as a published author, her recent vulnerability research in hacking law enforcement vehicles, m...

This week, we welcome John Delaroderie, Security Solutions Architect at Qualys, to discuss Groundhog Day - It's Time to Reset the Script on Vulnerabilities! In honor of the movie Groundhog Day, John will take a look at the top 10 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities through a web app security lens. In the Application Security News, Sudo sure does, Libgcrypt flaw, iMessage demonstrates security...

This week, we welcome back Taylor McCaslin, Sr. Product Manager of Secure at GitLab, to discuss Reading Industry Analyst Tea Leaves To Predict The Future! It's analyst season with the new Forrester Wave on SAST recently published as well as Gartner's Application Security Testing Magic Quadrant publishing in April. We'll talk about what are analyst reports, how should you use them, and how should y...

This week, we welcome Andrei Serban, Co-Founder at Fuzzbuzz, to discuss Fuzz Testing! Fuzzing can be successful AppSec strategy for finding software bugs. And deploying a fuzzer no longer needs to be a cumbersome process. Find out how fuzzing can help secure software beyond just memory safety issues and what the future holds for making this strategy more effective for modern apps. In the AppSec Ne...

A premise of adding security to DevOps is we can "shift left" AppSec responsibilities, one of which is building apps so they're secure by design. Yet what resources does the AppSec community provide for this approach to design? We take a look at the OWASP Top 10, Web Security Testing Guide, and Application Security Verification Standard to find a way forward for DevOps teams. In the AppSec News, M...

This week, we welcome Ev Kontsevoy, CEO at Teleport, to discuss Freedom From Computing Environments! In the Application Security News, FireEye shares supply chain subterfuge, researchers show repeated mistakes in TCP/IP stacks, Google open sources Python fuzzing, Cisco and Microsoft patch their patches for vulns in Jabber and printer modules!   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw134 Visit h...

This week, we welcome Mike Manrod, CISO of Grand Canyon University, joined by John Delaroderie, Security Solutions Architect at Qualys, to discuss his approach to web application security with an emphasis on improving knowledge of web application vulnerabilities and the external attack surface, and his approach to reducing the number of opportunities an attacker has to compromise our information a...

This week, we welcome back Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist at Synopsys, to talk about Security Decisions During Application Development! In the Application Security News, Xbox bug exposed email identities, focusing on prevention for your cloud security strategies, Amazon looking to hire more Rust developers, KubeCon continues push for security, and a DevOps reading list!   Show Notes: ht...

This week, in the first segment, Mike, Adrian, and John discuss Threat Modeling! We threat model every day without realizing it. And, of course, we often threat model with systems and products within our organizations. So how formal does our approach need to be? How do we best guide the "what could go wrong" discussion with DevOps teams? And what's a sign that we're generating useful threat models...

This week, we welcome Rickard Carlsson, Co-founder & CEO at Detectify, to talk about Automated Hacker Knowledge! In the Application Security News, The Platypus Attack Threatens Intel SGX, a Revitalized Attack Makes for Sad DNS, Bug Hunter Hits DOD With an IDOR, Steps for DevOps, Testing in Prod, Two More Chrome Bugs, and Open Source K8s Tools From Capital One!   Show Notes: https://wiki.securitywe...

This week, we have the pleasure to welcome back Keith Hoodlet, Senior Manager, Application Experience at Thermo Fisher Scientific, and former Host of Application Security Weekly, to discuss how Security Is a Feature! In the Application Security News, China's top hacking contest turns months of effort into 15 minutes of exploits, an injection flaw in GitHub Actions, understanding post-compromise ac...