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A weekly podcast of all things application security related. Hosted by Ken Johnson and Seth Law.
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The cybersecurity podcast about application security and those who practice it. Hosted by tech industry veterans Frank Catucci and Dan Murphy, AppSec Serialized by Invicti puts a new spin on the ”two guys talking” format by starting each episode with a security-themed fiction story in the style of old-time radio shows. Each episode focuses on a specific area of cybersecurity, with the hosts and their guests sharing their practitioners’ experiences and opinions, sprinkled liberally with a sol ...
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Join host Chris Lindsey as he digs into the world of Application Security with experts from leading enterprises. Each episode is theme based, so it's more conversational and topic based instead of the general interview style. Our focus is growing your knowledge, providing useful tips and advice. With Chris' development background of 35 years, 15+ years of secure coding and 3+ years running an application security program for large enterprise, the conversations will be deep and provide a lot ...
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AppSec Builders features practical and actionable conversations with application security experts and practitioners. Topics range from understanding and solving classes of vulnerability, building protections to efficiently scale with your business, and core best practices to strengthen your security posture. AppSec Builders is hosted by Jb Aviat, AppSec staff engineer at Datadog, former CTO and co-founder at Sqreen and Apple Red Team member. Contact us at appsecbuilders@datadoghq.com
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Welcome to The AppSec Insiders Podcast. This is a show where we discuss the hottest topics and latest trends in application and cloud security, and tell you what you need to know For those who don’t know who we are, we are all software developers, white-hat hackers, and code security experts. When we’re not recording the podcast, we help organizations of all sizes with their cybersecurity needs. If you’re an AppSec professional looking for an opportunity to work with some of the best in the ...
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The dynamic duo is back for another holiday special. Not that they reference the holidays, but dig into complaints about security conferences and how to build a conference network. Followed by a discussion inspired by a recent TL;DRSec post from Maya Kaczorowski on "What Sucks about Security" where security leaders were asked that specific question…
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Software supply-chain security is one aspect of cybersecurity that affects every sizable application out there and also every organization that uses web apps and APIs. Application frameworks and libraries make up much of the running code base of modern software—and it only takes one vulnerable or compromised component to create a critical security …
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Seth and Ken are happy to announce that Clint Gibler (@clintgibler), the force behind TL;DRSec (tldrsec.com) and head of Security Research at Semgrep, will be coming on as a guest again on the Absolute AppSec podcast. The conversation starts with background on his experience with TL;DRSec and writing a newsletter. Followed up by an indepth discussi…
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In this episode of "Secrets of AppSec Champions," host Chris Lindsey engages with Michael Vance, the CISO at Navient, to explore the nuances of bounty programs and their integration with traditional penetration testing. Michael discusses the journey of transitioning from a managed vulnerability disclosure program (VDP) to a full-scale bug bounty pr…
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Join us for an episode of Absolute AppSec with Kinnaird McQuade, founder and CTO of NightVision. Kinnaird developed NightVision as a security testing tool that combines codebase analysis with DAST features. Before NightVision, Kinnaird worked as lead security engineer at both Square and Salesforce. Additionally he worked at Synopsys as Cloud Securi…
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APIs are the secret door through which so many application attacks are executed in recent years. Compared to graphical user interfaces, they are far easier to build and deploy but far harder to test and secure, making API security a top concern. In this episode, Frank Catucci and Dan Murphy dive into the world of API security, discussing high-profi…
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In this episode of "Secrets of AppSec Champions," titled "Auditing Your Security Program," host Chris Lindsey converses with Roddy Bergeron, a cybersecurity fellow at SherWeb. They tackle several pressing topics in the realm of cybersecurity auditing, starting with the financial repercussions of poor data management. A friend's experience underscor…
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Seth (@sethlaw) and Ken (@cktricky) return for an in-depth discussion on penetration testing expectations, driven by recent posts and slack activity from Andrew Wilson. Essentially, certain clients expect that a single penetration test finds everything possible, whether or not those expectations are appropriate. The duo expounds on their experience…
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What Existing AWS Services are Important to AppSec? (Part 1 of 2) | The AppSec Insiders Ep.14
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Welcome to The AppSec Insiders Podcast. This is a show where we discuss the hottest topics and latest trends in application and cloud security, and tell you what you need to know For those who don’t know who we are, we are all software developers, white-hat hackers, and code security experts. When we’re not recording the podcast, we help organizati…
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What Existing AWS Services are Important to AppSec? (Part 2 of 2) | The AppSec Insiders Ep.15
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Welcome to The AppSec Insiders Podcast. This is a show where we discuss the hottest topics and latest trends in application and cloud security, and tell you what you need to know For those who don’t know who we are, we are all software developers, white-hat hackers, and code security experts. When we’re not recording the podcast, we help organizati…
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Scott Norberg joins Ken Johnson and Seth Law for an episode of Absolute AppSec all about SAST. Scott is an ASP.NET Security Consultant, Author, Researcher and Speaker. In addition to running his Opperis Technologies consultancy, Scott has recently begun working as lead application security architect at CDW. Before that he worked as Lead Application…
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In Episode 07 of Secrets of AppSec Champions, PenTesting with Nat Shere, Chris Lindsey hosts seasoned penetration tester Nathaniel Shere, who currently serves as the Technical Services Director at Craft Compliance. Nathaniel shares his journey into penetration testing, starting from his master's in cybersecurity and leading to over a decade of expe…
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Machine Learning When the Perimeter is Burning
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Knowing what sites, apps, and APIs you’re exposing to the Internet is crucial for determining your realistic risk level and making accurate security decisions. In this episode, Frank Catucci and Dan Murphy are joined by special guest Bogdan Calin, Principal Security Researcher at Invicti, to talk about ways of determining an organization’s web atta…
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Jeremy Long (@ctxt on social media), Principal Security Engineer at Service Now and project founder and lead for the OWASP Dependency Check project joins Ken Johnson (@cktricky) and Seth Law (@sethlaw). Jeremy spent a decade and a half as a lead application security engineer and principal engineer at Wells Fargo before joining ServiceNow. He has sp…
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Welcome to Episode 06 of "Secrets of AppSec Champions," titled "Working With Your CISO," featuring host Chris Lindsey and guest Yaron Levi, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Dolby Labs. In this episode, Yaron Levi, with over 15 years of experience in various security functions, provides insights into the multifaceted role of a CISO. …
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Ken and Seth return for Episode #263 and start with a discussion around web application fuzzing and the deficiencies of vulnerability and exploit-focused dynamic testing, a common thread in Seth's ranting. This is followed by a discussion on mobile testing and attempting to control security through client-side controls, spurred by an article that c…
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Moving from Reactive to Proactive in your Application Security Program
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In the episode "Reactive to Proactive" of the podcast Secrets of AppSec Champions, host Chris Lindsey engages with Shashank Balasubramanian, the Head of Application Security at Tripadvisor. Shashank has been managing the application security program at Tripadvisor for over four years, during which he has overseen the transition from a reactive to a…
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Ariel Shin joins Ken Johnson (@cktricky on social media) and Seth Law (@sethlaw) for a special episode of Absolute AppSec. Ariel is currently a Security Engineering Manager at Datadog after a three-year stint at Twilio where she worked as an engineering manager in product security, a product security team lead, and a senior product security enginee…
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Ken (@cktricky) and Seth (@sethlaw) are back to review this weeks news and commiserate about industry happenings. First up are their thoughts on the current economic climate and how it has affected the security industry over the last 5 years. This is followed with evolving nature of password reset requirements as frequent changes are not recommende…
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Absolute AppSec welcomes Darren Meyer (@DarrenPMeyer on infosec.exchange and X platform) from Endor Labs as a guest on the show to discuss Endor Lab’s newly released 2024 Dependency Management Report. Implementation of reachability analysis as a sine qua non of effective dependency management is one of the top-line takeaways from the newly released…
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In this episode of "Secrets of AppSec Champions" titled "Security Champions," host Chris Lindsey engages with Jigar Shah, an executive global director in the IT identity, access, and application security space, to explore the critical importance of cybersecurity in our increasingly digital and interconnected world. The episode underscores the heigh…
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Seth and Ken take the podcast global this week while traveling to Melbourne, Australia. The duo is joined this episode are joined by Paul McCarty and Daniel Ting, both involved in the local application security community. The discussion starts with a comparison of industries in Australia and the United States, both differences and similarities. Thi…
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of the oldest web vulnerability types and still a very real threat. In this episode, Frank Catucci and Dan Murphy talk about the origins of cross-site scripting, some high-profile attacks, and best practices to test for and also prevent XSS in applications. In the fiction segment, Mallory the hacker uses XSS to inj…
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Seth (@sethlaw) and Ken (@cktricky) are back this week with some hot takes on the recent cancellation of OWASP's San Francisco Developer Days that were running alongside Global AppSec San Francisco. OWASP has struggled to engage the development community over the years and this is no surprise for anyone in AppSec/ProdSec. This is followed by review…
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Compromised and Reactive to Proactive Approaches
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In Episode 03 of Secrets of AppSec Champions podcast titled "Compromised: Proactive to Reactive," hosts Chris Lindsey and guest Phil Guimond tackle the critical distinctions between proactive and reactive security strategies. They emphasize the importance of access logging and visibility in detecting compromises early, pointing out how changes in a…
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Ken (@cktricky) returns alongside Seth (@sethlaw) for the week. This starts with an in-depth discussion on the pros and cons of in-person and virtual trainings. In short, the duo prefers in-person due for the advantages, but understand that financial pressures come into play, so virtual is a good substitute. This is followed by thoughts on the rece…
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Ken Johnson (@cktricky) abandons the podcast this week to attend a conference and play business, so Seth (@sethlaw) bring in Cloud Security Partners CTO John Poulin (@forced_request) as a co-host. John and Seth start off by discussing the difference in virtual and in-person training. This is followed by two articles. The first is from CrankySec, wh…
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Maturing your AppSec Program - Moving beyond the basics
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In this episode of Secrets of AppSec Champions, host Chris Lindsey and guest Toby Jackson dive into the strategies and best practices for maturing an application security (AppSec) program. Toby underscores the necessity of validating video messages, with the same rigor applied to emails and texts, to mitigate security threats. Emphasizing the growi…
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Seth and Ken are back from Vegas for Episode 0xFF (!!!!) of Absolute AppSec, sponsored by Redpoint Security (redpointsecurity.com). After spending the last week+ withering away in the desert heat while listening to industry insiders, technicians, and hackers talk about their research, the duo have returned dehydrated to share their own experiences …
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Seth and Ken return this week at a slightly unusual time help get you prepped for all things Hacker Summer Camp. As regular visitors to Las Vegas each year for Blackhat, BSidesLV, DEF CON, and other events, the duo has recommendations for making the most of your time in the desert. Specifically, download HackerTracker (https://hackertracker.app), p…
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📋 Show Notes Secrets of AppSec Champions: Laying the Foundation of Application Security In the inaugural episode of the multi-part series 'Decoding Application Security,' host Chris Lindsey and guest Anthony Israel-Davis, Product Security Manager at Fortra, dive into the fundamentals of building a successful application security program for large t…
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We'd only been a dozen episodes old the last time Justin Collins (@presidentbeef) was on Absolute AppSec, so his upcoming return is certainly overdue. Justin is currently head of security at Gusto, an organization he's been helping secure for nearly five years now. Before Gusto, Justin had stints at SurveyMonkey, Twitter, AT&T interactive, among ot…
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Product Security and Cloud security guru Rami McCarthy (@ramimacisabird on X) comes on the Absolute AppSec podcast with Ken and Seth (@cktricky and @sethlaw)! To get to know Rami, you should first check out his website here to get acquainted with some of his latest prodigious activities: https://ramimac.me/. He’s recently delivered a talk regarding…
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Seth and Ken are back with Episode 251, continuing on with their ranting over all things application security. This starts with a discussion of Mozilla's HTTP Observatory that scans sites for security-relevant headers and leads to a discussion of so-called "passive" scanning of internet sets for risk analysis purposes. This is followed by a walkthr…
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Seth and Ken are back on the podcast this week without a guest for the first time in a month and start out with an in-depth discussion on startup life based on a recent article from TLDR;Sec. This is followed by thoughts on the recent influx of cash for Portswigger and how it will affect work and the testing space over the next few years. Finally, …
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Tanya Janca (@shehackspurple on X) joins Ken Johnson (@cktricky) and Seth Law (@sethlaw) for a special episode of the Absolute AppSec podcast. Tanya is currently head of education and community at Semgrep, and is a prominent info security commenter and active contributor to improving the industry for everybody through helping spread values of diver…
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Rahil Parikh, manager of Security Engineering and Architecture @ Policygenius, joins Seth Law and Ken Johnson for an episode of Absolute AppSec. Rahil is long-time leader in information security who's managed security teams and application security programs at a range of organizations: Policy Genius, Zinnia, the New York Times, Frame.io (now Adobe)…
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Absolute AppSec welcomes Alejandro Saenz to join Seth Law and Ken Johnson as a guest. Alejandro has been active in application and product security fields for over a decade, most recently working in product security for Twilio. Before that he worked as a senior application security engineer and software engineer at Softrams and as an application se…
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Charles Shirer joins Absolute AppSec for a special episode of the show. Charles has decades of experience as a pentester, threat hunter, red teamer, and security consultant. He's CEO of GlobalWave consulting, a security consulting firm that's been serving clients for over a decade. Charles is also a frequent conference speaker, online commentator, …
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Dustin Lehr, current director of AppSec at data integration company Fivetran, joins Seth and Ken for a special episode of Absolute AppSec. Dustin has spent years helping improve companies' security cultures industry-wide, through his work co-founding Katilyst Security which focuses on helping companies create security champion programs. Additionall…
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Kyle Kelly joins Seth Law and Ken Johnson as a special guest on the Absolute AppSec podcast. Kyle is an Executive Cybersecurity Consultant at Bancsec, Inc, and Security Researcher at Semgrep, and founder of the wonderful Cramhacks newsletter. As a consultant and researcher, Kyle specializes in supply chain security, a speciality that informs the th…
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Bryan Schmidt, information security lead at Adept AI is joining Ken Johnson (@cktricky on twitter/x) and Seth Law (@Sethlaw) for a special episode of Absolute AppSec. Before Adept.AI, Bryan spent the last half decade working as a security engineering manager at, first, Flatiron Health and, later ChowNow, and he worked as a penetration tester and se…
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Seth and Ken return with analysis of recent research that shows LLMs exploiting known CVEs. And no, it's not completely autonomous yet. This is followed by a breakdown of DataDog's State of DevSecOps article, backing up our gut feel of current industry needs and failures.
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**Video may be required**: this episode is focused on demonstrating uses of LLMs against various code. As such, listeners may want to watch the stream to see these uses rather than just listening. Also, Seth and Ken talk briefly at the beginning of the episode about a new tldr;sec project (thanks Clint!) called awesome secure defaults that lists ou…
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After a week of travel, Seth and Ken return to the podcast with a breakdown of their travel experiences at multiple conferences and teaching their first Practical Secure Code Review course using LLMs to enhance the methodology. This is followed by reinforcement of code review steps including library research, a discussion of the recent XZ backdoor,…
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When Ken is away, the geeks will play. Seth is joined by podcast regular Stefan Edwards (@lojikil) to catch up on his recent work around threat hunting. This progresses into a discussion on threat intelligence and what is available for applications. A recent blog post on the utility of the CVE system spurs thoughts on the usefulness of published CV…
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Ken and Seth are back to talk about the difference and competing priorities of Application and Enterprise Security. In short, recent news contends that Enterprise or Infrastructure security is lacking, whereas Application or Product Security is in a good state. This is followed by a discussion on supply chain security tools due to a recent analysis…
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Ken and Seth return for another episode, starting out with pointers on getting into security and finding a niche, all based on a recently released Microsoft project to introduce anyone to security. This is followed by a discussion on Chinese hacking groups and recent breaches among those groups. Finally, a discussion protecting the software supply …
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Seth and Ken review the recent Whitehouse report on going back to the basics for software security and vulnerabilities. Specifically, how is the use of memory unsafe languages like C and C++ affecting the overall security of the internet landscape. This include a discussion on formal verification and crocs and socks of software testing. Finally, th…
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