The OWASP Podcast Series

When I think of Tel Aviv, I imagine a robust, young culture, living a good, fun life. Not only is the culture conducive to a young life style, its tech industry continues to gain traction. As Wired Magazine said last August, "Israeli startups have always been high on Silicon Valley shopping lists, but Tel Aviv is beginning to shake off its reputation as Europe’s exit capital." Zebra, the medical d...

If you've read the Phoenix Project, you'll remember Brent, the indispensable cog on the operations team. Brent was a good guy, he wanted to do the right things, all of the right things, but was pulled in all directions because of the lack of a unified plan for the company's project workflow. But what if Brent didn't want to do the "right" thing? What if Brent was more interested in the convenience...

Three years ago there was an idea floating around OWASP... a core community was looking for a way to have an isolated week, where security project working groups could get together, with no distractions, and work on projects they felt were important. From this idea, the Open Security Summit was founded. Now in it's third year, the summit takes place in an isolated forest located between London and...

Open-source components and their use within the software supply chain has become ubiquitous within the past few years. Current estimates are that 80-90% of new software applications consist of open-source components and frameworks. Section A9 of the OWASP Top 10 places components with known vulnerabilities as one of the most prevalent and abused parts of the software supply chain, placing it at a...

"Chaos engineering is an empirical practice of setting up experiments to figure out where your system is vulnerable so that you can know that ahead of time and proactively fix some of these vulnerabilities in your system." -- Casey Rosenthal In this broadcast, I speak with Casey Rosenthal about the beginnings of Chaos Engineering and Netflix and how the concept has morphed into a cross-industry co...

The Ladies of London Hacking Society was created by Eliza-May Austin in an act of frustration. Having nowhere to turn to meet other women within the security industry in the UK,Eliza-May fired off an online post lamenting the lack of local community support for technical security-based women. Her story is a common one. The post seemed to resonate with the local community. In a short time, she had...

What am I working on? What can go wrong? What am I going to do about it? Did I do a good job? These are the four questions at the heart of threat modeling In this episode, I speak with Adam Shostack, author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security. We talk through how to begin threat modeling and the expectations of using modeling. Adam walks through the history of threat modeling, including his...

This is the sixth episode in an eight part series, talking with the authors of "Epic Failures in DevSecOps". In this segment, I speak with Chris Roberts about his chapter, "We are all special snowflakes", diving into topics as diverse as the failure of the security industry to protect us from ourselves and what is considered "acceptable" monitoring when it comes to the government, and to social si...

The inclusion of security as an integral piece of the DevOps puzzle continues to gain traction. In this episode of the DevSecOps Days Podcast Series, I speak with Curtis Yanko and Scott McCarty about their new book, "A Concise Introduction to DevSecOps". We discuss why they wrote the book, who the audience is that will benefit from it and why enterprises should be considering security as part of t...

As if there aren't enough reasons to go to Southern California in the middle of a New York winter, AppSec Cali opens it's doors for its 6th Annual OWASP conference on January 22, 2019. In this broadcast, I speak with Richard Greenberg, one of the core organizers of the conference, talking about why people come, what they can expect to see and why he continues to help produce the conference year af...

Aubrey Stearn is the Technical Lead for the Enterprise Cloud Platform at Nationwide. In the broadcast we talk with Aubrey about her chapter, "The Tale of the Burning Programme", in the recently released "Epic Failures in DevSecOps" book. Aubrey talks about her extensive experience guiding and molding teams, leading the way through the maze of decisions needed in order to build a more productive an...

"In the past when we were writing software, it was our engineers and our organizations that had total cost of ownership of that software. But now, that has fundamentally changed. Engineers are using open source software and deploying the entire application on an open source framework, which means a large part of the software supply chain is no longer owned by the engineer. " -- Chetan Conikee In t...

We continue the "Epic Failures in DevSecOps" series by speaking with Edwin Kwan on his chapter, "Threat Modeling - A Disaster Story". Edwin is Application and Software Security Team Lead at Tyro Payments. In our discussion, we talk about the three things he learned through his "Epic Failure": -- Demonstrate value at the buy-in -- Get early feedback -- Automate as much as possible During our discus...

Stefan Streichsbier talks about his chapter, "Unicorn Rodeos", in the just released book, "Epic Failures in DevSecOps". We start with where did the chapter name come from and what does it mean, then lead into his three main points for hanging on for the rodeo ride: -- Don't waste time over-engineering -- Build for the right audience -- Find your champions We conclude with a discussion of technolog...

DJ Schleen talks about his upcoming 15 part video series, "The DevSecOps Experiment", where he will walk through the setup of a software supply chain, including building in security during every step of the process. This is a lab workshop type series, where you'll be able to immediately implement the solutions at the end of each 15 minute session. DJ will be available to answer your questions on h...

In this broadcast, I speak with Chris Roberts and Derek Weeks about lines of responsibility and npm package highjacking in light of the event-stream vulnerability announcement last week. The announcement of the event-stream npm package vulnerability has once again raised the issue of who it ultimately responsible when a breach like this is announced. Is it the original creator of the package? What...

Once again, the pattern of taking over a known package and modifying it with malicious intent has happened. In this case, it's with the event-stream module in the npm repository. In this broadcast I speaker with Thomas Hunter, Software Developer at Intrinsic and author of "Compromised npm Package: event-stream", and Brian Fox, CTO of Sonatype, author of the Forbes "Open Source Developers And Infra...

"The guy who wrote wifi software with SSID never imagined that someone could use that SSID to transmit data by writing two smaller applications to leverage it. We are constantly going to be in this [type of] battle. Ultimately we've got to find a way to stay ahead of it by understanding the mechanisms by which we're writing the abuse case possibilities." -- Shannon Lietz Following their session at...

"If you look inside a large enterprise IT organization, they have this very bizarre and broken layer that's completely separating the way that business thinks in terms of products, budgets and costs, and the way IT people know the way they need to innovate, which is delivering products faster." -- Mik Kersten I sat down with Mik Kersten, CEO of TaskTop, and John Willis after Mik's presentation at...

Why would you allow open source usage in your company. What are the compelling reasons to take the risk. In this discussion, I talk with Topo Pal and Derek Weeks about the industry perception of open source and what's really happening behind the curtain at large enterprises. Topo had just finished his keynote presentation at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 and I wanted to dive a little deeper into s...

"The compensation, the incentives that people have are very much anchored in short term objectives that do not take into account the vision for the bigger transformations that are happening within the market." -- Sacha Labourey, CEO, CloudBees Sacha Labourey runs one of the most visible, respected companies within the DevOps and DevSecOps communities. At Jenkins World 2018, I sat down with Sacha t...

While at 2018 AppSec EU, I spoke with Sam Stepanyan and Grigorios Fragkos, chapter leaders of one of OWASP's largest chapters. The conversation centered around what does it take to grow a community, what does it take to lead a chapter.

This is Mark Miller, Executive Producer. 4 years ago I took over the creation and curation of the OWASP podcast series. In that time, there have been 118 episodes, with a combined listenership of over 269,000 plays. The series began as a way to speak with OWASP project leads and chapters leaders to let the community hear what was being worked on. Gradually, the show has morphed into something broa...

In this episode, I speak with the organizing committee of 2018 AppSec EU, hearing about what's planned and why you should consider attending this international conference in London.

On March 1, 2018, the team at Semmle announced a critical vulnerability in the Pivotal Spring framework. The vulnerability was found by security researcher Man Yue Mo at Semmle — the team behind lgtm.com. In this episode of OWASP 24/7, I speak with research team at Semmle on how they discovered the vulnerability. Also, Brian Fox joins the discussion on the process for responsible disclosure, diffe...