Chris Kirsch works on the products team at Veracode and has 20 years of experience in security, particularly in the areas of application security testing, security assessments, incident response, and cryptography. Previously, he managed Metasploit and incident response solutions at Rapid7 and held similar positions at Thales e-Security and PGP Corporation. He is the winner of the Social Engineering CTF Black Badge competition at DEF CON 25.
https://www.veracode.com/security/web-application-security-testingThis week, AWS ran its inaugural security conference AWS re:Inforce in Boston. There were several interesting talks at the conference, and I found John Maski’s presentation, “Integrating AppSec in your DevSecOps on AWS,” contained…
This is part two of a two-part blog series on a presentation by Hooper Kincannon, Cyber Security Engineer at Unum Group, on “Secure from the Start: A Case Study on Software Security” at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in National Harbor, MD. In this presentation, Hooper provided a…
Bootstrapping an application security program is hard. Technology is only one part of the equation. You need to inventory your applications, get stakeholders on board, and then execute on the holy trinity of people, process, and technology. That’s why I was excited to see Hooper Kincannon, Cyber…
Container security is a topic most security practitioners still find confusing. It’s a new technology that’s spreading fast because of its numbers benefits, and security implications and solutions are evolving just as fast.
That’s why I really appreciated Anna Belak’s session “Container Security –…
“We often forget that technology cannot solve the world’s problems.” That was one of the opening lines of Joanna Huisman’s session “Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training” at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in National Harbor, MD. While her Magic Quadrant…
Over the past few months, I’ve experienced an increased interest in DevSecOps from midsize enterprises, so I was especially interested in attending Neil Wynne and Paul Furtado’s session “Outlook for Midsize Enterprise Security and Risk Management 2019” at the Gartner Security & Risk Management…
