The Secure Developer

In episode 72 of The Secure Developer, we take a look back at some previous episodes, focusing on Security Champions. We have included excerpts from Guy’s talks with: Steve White (Pivotal) Kate Whalen (The Guardian) Omer Levi Hevroni (ex-Asurion, now Snyk) Yashvier Kosaraju (Twilio)

In episode 71 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Nitzan Blouin, an Information Security Manager at Spotify, whose background combines engineering and product management. She built six QA test departments from scratch while bulletproofing big data with and mobile products. Nowadays, she’s leading Spotify’s product security team. In this episode, Nitzan digs into changing culture, something that she has managed a couple of times before in a variety of contexts.

In episode 70 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Larry Maccherone, an Engineer in DevSecOps Transformation at Comcast. Our conversation with Larry focuses on his experience transforming Comcast’s development team. We open by talking about Larry’s career and how he’s learned the importance of visualizing data in order to explain his research. Near the end of the episode, Larry talks about cloud tech before giving advice on taking your security to the next level...

In episode 69 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Teri Radichel, CEO of 2nd Sight Lab and author of Cybersecurity for Executives in the Age of Cloud. Teri begins by explaining how she got into the world of cloud security after experiencing a breach in her prior web application development and hosting company...

Episode 68 of The Secure Developer features some fantastic content from a panel at DevSecCon London. Clint Gibler, Research Director at the NCC Group is joined by Doug DePerry, Director of Defense at Datadog, Tash Norris, Head of Product Security at Moonpig, Jesse Endahl, CSO at Fleetsmith, and Zane Lackey, CSO at Signal Sciences. The discussion begins with a dive into building a good security culture within a company and ways to get other members of an organization interested in security.

In episode 67 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Aaron Rinehart, CTO and co-Founder at Verica, a continuous verification company that uses chaos engineering to make systems more secure. Aaron has been expanding the possibilities of chaos engineering in its application to other safety-critical portions of the IT domain, notably cybersecurity. In this episode, we learn more about Aaron’s diverse background from developer into chaos engineering.

In episode 66 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Yashvier Kosaraju from Twilio, where he manages the product security team. Yash does a sterling job of unpacking the way the different security teams are laid out at Twilio, their relationships to each other and the developers, and where the lines are drawn...

In episode 65 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Alyssa Miller, AppSec Advocate at Snyk. Alyssa shares her perspective of the tech world and the incredible changes that have emerged over the past two years, including the rise of cloud technology and the use of docker images. They talk about Snyk’s DevSecOps Hub — a tool that guides organizations in implementing DevSpecOps into their organizations...

In episode 64 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Ryan Ware, Security Architect and director of the Intel Products Assurance and Security Tools team. Ryan’s current passion is ensuring that developers at Intel have the right security tools in their hands to be able to quickly and efficiently understand the security implications of the choices they make in their daily work...

In episode 63 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Kelly Shortridge, VP of Product Strategy at Capsule8. Following product roles at SecurityScorecard, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, as well as co-founding IperLane, a security startup which was acquired. Kelly is also known for presenting at international technology conferences, on topics ranging from behavioral economics at Infosec to chaos security engineering.