It’s Not Your Developers’ Fault
This year’s RSA theme is Resilience. It’s once again a virtual event, which means I get to attend as a speaker without needing to travel to San Francisco. Title: It’s Not Your Developers’ Fault Time: 5:00pm to 5:30pm (EDT) Description:The...
RSA Conference Asia Pacific &Japan 2020
This was my first virtual RSA presentation. Previously it had always been in person at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. However due to the pandemic, this session was done virtually. The title of my talk was Your Application is Mostly Written by...
Guest on IDC DevOps Breakfast on Open Source Security
I had the opportunity to be a guest on the IDC DevOps Breakfast show with Gina Smith and Michael Araneta where we got to speak on open source...
SafetyCulture Quality Engineering Meetup
I had the great opportunity to speak at SafetyCulture’s inaugural quality engineering Meetup. I was the first speaker of three with the other speakers being Georgia De Pont who heads up quality at Dovetail Studios and Roger Chapman, who is a distinguished...Building an Engineering Security Culture
https://www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv/videos/building-an-engineering-security-culture I had the pleasure of being on Ashish Rajan’s Cloud Security Podcast to talk about Building an Engineering Security Culture. We discussed about the following topics: What is...
Your Website Might have an Unknown OSCP Dependency
A few weeks ago, a friend who looks after a web server had an outage on their website and asked me to help troubleshoot. The cause of the outage surprised me and is the reason why I’m writing about it. The website outage was due to a dependency it had on the server of...My Thoughts on FAIR
photo taken from yorkfair.org I recently completed the FAIR analysis fundamentals course and here are my thoughts on it. FAIR stands for Factor Analysis of Information Risk, and is the only international standard quantitative model for information security and...
Rapid Risk Assessments
That was the main take away for me from today’s talks by SANS instructor Eric Johnson. He was in the country running a workshop and talk at AISA conference in Melbourne and SANS contacted me if I was interested in having him doing a private talk to the team. I was...