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ASW #193 - AppSec (& adjacent) Metrics
We can create top 10 lists and we can count vulns that we find with scanners and pen tests, but those aren't effective metrics for understanding and improving an appsec program. So, what should we focus on? How do we avoid the trap of focusing on the metrics that are easy to gather and shift to metrics that have clear ways that teams can influence them? In the AppSec News: OAuth tokens compromised, five flaws in a medical robot, lessons from ASN.1 parsing, XSS and bad UX, proactive security & engineering culture at Chime!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw193
Segment resources:
- https://www.philvenables.com/post/10-fundamental-but-really-hard-security-metrics
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance
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