The Application Security Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Frank Rietta is the CEO of Rietta.com, a Security Focused Web Application Firm. He is a web application security architect, expert witness, author, and speaker. Frank joins us to discuss secure coding with Ruby on Rails. We get into a discussion about RoR vs. other languages, primary threats, counters to threats, and tools available for the RoR developer to assist with security. W...

Send us Fan Mail Dmitry Sotnikov serves as Chief Product Officer at 42Crunch – an enterprise API security company. He maintains https://APISecurity.io, a popular community site with daily API Security news and weekly newsletter API vulnerabilities, breaches, standards, best practices, regulations, and tools. Dmitry joins us to discuss REST API Security. We talk about the top API security threats,...

Send us Fan Mail Caroline Wong is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt.io. Wong's close and practical information security knowledge stems from broad experience as a Cigital consultant, a Symantec Product Manager, and day-to-day leadership roles at eBay and Zynga. Caroline joins us to talk about penetration testing and reviews key findings from the Cobalt.io "State of Pentesting" re...

Send us Fan Mail Aaron Davis is a founder, dev, and a lead security researcher at MetaMask, a popular Ethereum wallet. He introduces us to LavaMoat, an approach to solving javascript software supply chain security for node and the browser. The LavaMoat runtime prevents modifying JavaScript's primordials, limits access to the platform API, and prevents packages from corrupting other packages....

Send us Fan Mail Anastasiia Voitova is a software engineer who works on data security solutions at @cossacklabs, making complex crypto easy-to-use in modern software. She joins us to explore the idea of boring crypto. She caught our attention with a talk at OWASP 24 where she encouraged developers to NOT learn crypto. You'll have to listen to understand her rationale. She explains mistakes fo...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Furman is the Lead Security Architect at Tufin, and is responsible for the security and Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) of Tufin software products. Michael is passionate about application security for over 13 years already and evangelizes about application security at various conferences (including OWASP conferences) and security meetups. Michael joins us to break dow...

Send us Fan Mail Application security applies to everyone, network architects included. Chris had an opportunity to join a friend's Podcast called "The Hedge." Chris talks with hosts Tom and Russ about the state of security and what network engineers need to know about security from an application perspective. They talk about the importance of empathy in all jobs, walking a mile in...

Send us Fan Mail Neil Matatall is a product security engineer at GitHub. He focuses on designing and engineering user experiences solutions related to authentication and account recovery. Working remotely from Hawaii, Neil is a strong believer in the future of remote work. Neil joins us for a deep-dive into Content Security Policy. We explore what it is, the purpose, and why it’s so difficult to i...

Send us Fan Mail Grant Ongers is co-founder of the bearded trio called Secure Delivery, with a philosophy and purpose for optimal delivery and security in one dynamic package. Grant's experience spans Dev, Ops, and Security, with over 30 years pushing the limits of (Info)Sec. Grant’s community involvement is global: Staff at BSides (London, Las Vegas, and Cape Town), Goon at DEF CON (USA) for...

Send us Fan Mail Elie Saad is an application security engineer, leading three different OWASP projects. He focuses on helping developers own and champion security in their projects by providing guidance, tests, secure pipeline design and aiding them in applying external security measures. In this conversation, Elie educates us about the current happenings with WSTG, Cheat Sheets, and the Integrati...

Send us Fan Mail Graham Holmes is the founder and owner of AoP CyberSecurity, LLC whose mission is to enable organizations to “create scalable and effective strategies for trustworthy outcomes.” His career includes over 22 years as a leader at Cisco Systems, where he infamously served as my boss for a period of time, and before that he served in the US Navy as a commissioned officer for 9 years. G...

Send us Fan Mail Ochaun Marshall is a developer and security consultant. In his roles at Secure Ideas, he works on ongoing development projects utilizing Amazon Web Services and breaks other people's web applications. Ochaun joins us to talk about the changing tide of serverless and frustrations with AWS security. Before we got to the actual topic, we talked about how he currently works as a...

Send us Fan Mail Drew Dennison is the CTO & co-founder of r2c, a startup working to profoundly improve software security and reliability to safeguard human progress. Drew joins us to introduce a tool called semgrep. Semgrep is a fast source code analysis tool, potentially faster than anything you've seen before. If you want to see the live demo of semgrep, head over to the Application Sec...

Send us Fan Mail Aaron Guzman specializes in IoT, embedded, and automotive security. Aaron is the Co-Author of “IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook”. He helps lead both OWASP’s Embedded Application Security and Internet of Things projects; providing practical guidance for addressing top security vulnerabilities to the embedded and IoT community. Aaron joins us to explore IoTGoat. IoTGoat is a deliber...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Shostack is a leading expert on threat modeling, and consultant, entrepreneur, technologist, author, and game designer. He has taught threat modeling at a wide range of commercial, non-profit, and government organizations. Adam joins us to discuss his new white paper called the Jenga View of Threat Modeling. For season 7 and beyond, we've launched our YouTube channel, Ap...

Send us Fan Mail Cindy Blake is the Senior Security Evangelist at GitLab. Cindy collaborates around best practices for integrated DevSecOps application security solutions with major enterprises. She is proud to introduce her new book, “10 Steps to Securing Next-Gen Software”. The book combines her cyber security experience with a background in lean and software development, and simplifies the comp...

Send us Fan Mail Jannik Hollenbach is a Security Automation Engineer at iteratec GmbH, working on and with open source security testing tools to continuously detect security vulnerabilities in the companies software and systems. He is also a member of the OWASP Juice Shop project team. Jannik joins us to discuss MultiJuicer, or how to run JuiceShop in a Kubernetes cluster, with a separate JuiceSho...

Send us Fan Mail Sebastien Deleersnyder is co-founder, CEO of Toreon, and Bart De Win is a director within PwC Belgium. They work together to co-lead both the OWASP Belgium Chapter and the OWASP SAMM project. Sebastien and Bart join us to introduce OWASP SAMM 2.0. OWASP SAMM (Software Assurance Maturity Model) is the OWASP framework to help organizations assess, formulate, and implement a strategy...

Send us Fan Mail We’ve reached the end of season six, and here are a few of our favorite clips. Season seven is around the corner. S06E01 — Marc French — The AppSec CISO What are some tips for someone who wants to become a CISO? Is there such a thing as a CISO school? S06E05 — Steve Lipner — The Past, Present, and Future of SDL Lipner is a giant in the industry and someone that I’ve looked up to f...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Merkow works at WageWorks in Tempe, Arizona, leading application security architecture and engineering efforts in the office of the CISO. Mark has over 40 years of experience in IT in a variety of roles, including application development, systems analysis, and design, security engineering, and security management. Mark has authored or co-authored 17 books on  IT and has been...

Send us Fan Mail Zsolt is the founder and CTO of GUARDARA with more than 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, both on the offensive and defensive side. Zsolt explains fuzz testing, who does it, and why. He also helps us to understand how to deal with fuzz testing results, and how to get started doing fuzz testing on your own. We hope you enjoy this conversation with … Zolt Imre. FOLLOW OUR SOC...

Send us Fan Mail Adam joins us to discuss remote threat modeling, and we do a live threat modeling exercise to figure out how remote threat modeling actually works. If you want to see the screen share as we figure out remote threat modeling, check out the Youtube version of the episode. Bio: Adam Shostack is a leading expert on threat modeling, and consultant, entrepreneur, technologist, author an...

Send us Fan Mail Kim Wuyts is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven (Belgium). She has more than 10 years of experience in security and privacy in software engineering. Kim is one of the main forces behind the development and extension of LINDDUN, a privacy threat modeling framework that provides systematic support to elicit and mitigate privacy threats in so...

Send us Fan Mail John Martin has owned responsibilities ranging from Software Supply Chain to DevSecOps Security Champions to Cloud Security Monitoring. His career spans the years between Blue-Box MF generators, through the era of automated hacks, and into our modern age of industrialized paranoia. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of commercial software security and a contributor to many SAFE...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy Long is a principal engineer specializing in securing the SDLC. Jeremy is the founder and project lead for the OWASP dependency-check project; a software composition analysis tool that identifies known vulnerable 3rd party libraries. Jeremy joins us to share the origin story of dependency check, the problems it solves, the number of companies that use it, how to integrate i...