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The Secure Developer

Welcome to The Secure Developer, a podcast about security for developers, covering security tools and practices you can and should adopt into your development workflow. The Secure Developer is hosted by Guy Podjarny, CEO and Co-founder of Snyk. Follow the show on Twitter @thesecuredev.

In our first episode, Guy is joined by Kyle Randolph, Principal Security Engineer at Optimizely. Kyle and Guy discuss the sometimes difficult but always important task of prioritizing security in your engineering organization. Kyle shares stories from his time at Optimizely, Adobe, and Twitter.

Producer: Ted Carstensen
Editor: Lucas Oswald

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The Secure Developer - Ep. #1, Prioritizing Secure Development

In this episode of The Secure Developer, Guy hosts RisingStack Founder and CEO Gergely Nemeth. The pair discuss the difficulties of selling security as a requirement, some of the most common attack vectors used on today’s web, and finally about the work RisingStack is doing on Trace, a Node.js focused tool that makes debugging code simple.

Producer: Ted Carstensen
Editor: Lucas Oswald

The Secure Developer - Ep. #2, Making Security A Requirement

In episode 3 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Sabin Thomas, VP of Engineering at Codiscope, where he creates tools that help developers build and deploy secure code faster. The two discuss the difficulties presented by the accelerating release of new tools and frameworks, the problem of too many sticks and not enough carrots, and the benefits of designing with security in mind from the start.

Producer: Ted Carstensen
Editor: Lucas Oswald

The Secure Developer - Ep. #3, Security From The Start

In episode #4 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Eric Lawrence of the Google Chrome security team. Eric and Guy begin with a discussion on what it takes to be a great security engineer – namely curiosity and a willingness to learn. Later they discuss the growing importance of the modern web browser, and how security previously only found in operating systems is now moving into browsers themselves. Finally they discuss the current state of HTTPS, including the carrots and the sticks that browser designers like Eric have at their disposal.

Producer: Ted Carstensen
Editor: Lucas Oswald

The Secure Developer - Ep. #4, Getting Down To The Metal

In the fifth installment of The Secure Developer, Guy talks with Chef CTO Adam Jacob about the role security can play in DevOps and continuous integration/deployment. They cover the differences between baked-in and bolted on security and how automation with Habitat can change the way developers approach secure coding.

Producer: Ted Carstensen
Editor: Lucas Oswald

The Secure Developer - Ep. #5, Continuous Security at Chef

In episode #6 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by his Snyk.io co-founder Danny Grander for an in depth discussion on CTF (Capture The Flag) competitions in the security world. Learn about the differences between jeopardy style and attack-defense CTFs, the future of AI powered hacking (and defense!), and where you should start if you're interested in playing.

Producer: Ted Carstensen
Editor: Lucas Oswald

The Secure Developer - Ep. #6, Developer War Games: Capture The Flag!

In this episode of The Secure Developer, Ben Bernstein from Twistlock joins Guy to discuss container security. Are you currently using containers, or thinking about moving to containers in your stack? You won’t want to miss this episode.

With containers, developers control the entire stack. While empowering to developers, this can also open up new security vulnerabilities. Ben and Guy discuss the tools and processes you’ll need to put in place to ensure your containers are compliant and secure.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #7, Understanding Container Security

In this episode of The Secure Developer, Geva Solomonovich, COO at Snyk and founder of Snowy Peak Security joins Guy to discuss security policies, and why you shouldn't wait to implement your own.

Geva shares the 3 categories of security policies he developed with his clients and emphasizes that it's not enough to create a set of documents or processes. You need to establish a security mindset and integrate it into everything you do. Don’t miss this episode for practical tips on reducing your company's risk surface.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #8, What’s In A Security Policy?

In the latest episode of The Secure Developer, Francois Raynaud joins Guy to discuss the current state of IT security.

Francois explains why a cultural shift is needed to make security more inclusive, with security professionals taking on a greater mentoring and guiding role. Francois discusses why he created DevSecCon, a Development Security Conference aimed at fostering inclusion. He also shares approaches for DevOps and Security teams to better understand what other teams are trying to achieve so they can work collaboratively and improve business security.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #9, Making Security More Inclusive

In the latest episode of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Aren Sandersen. They examine the current state of access control systems and discuss the need for better education and tooling to supports time-bound dynamic access control.

Aren also explains why most startups consider security too late and reveals the minimum mindset that all early stage startups need to adopt to manage their attack surface.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #10, Dynamic Authorization: The Evolution of Access Controls

In the latest episode of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Arup Chakrabarti, Kevin Babcock and Rich Adams from PagerDuty. They discuss how they put into practice their security vision of “making it easy to do the right thing”.

This involves picking the right tooling and designing a security experience that doesn’t force people to do things, but rather provides insight into how vulnerabilities can be exposed. Giving people the opportunity to break things also creates a strong desire to want to then protect those things.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #11, Keeping PagerDuty Secure

In the latest episode of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Molly Crowther from Pivotal. Molly discusses her role in managing security at Cloud Foundry, an open source cloud platform on which developers can build, deploy and run applications. She explains their security triage and CVE process and reveals some of the challenges of working within the large ecosystem of diverse companies that make up the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Molly also talks about how she fulfills her role of wearing many hats as a representative of both Pivotal and the open source foundation.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #12, Keeping Cloud Foundry Secure

In the latest episode of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Shaun Gordon, Chief Security Officer at New Relic. Shaun tells us how he got into a career in security and explains how the role of security has evolved at New Relic. He reveals their philosophy of adapting security processes to fit the way developers do their job and emphasizes the importance of exception alerts, scorecards, and automation to support a rapidly scaling organization.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #13, How New Relic Does Security

In the latest episode of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Geoff Belknapp, Chief Security Officer at Slack. Geoff discusses what drew him into security and reveals why it's critical for security teams to be recognized as a full-fledged member of engineering. He explains why it makes sense for companies to develop a track record of transparency and actively encourage community participation through bug bounty programs. Geoff also concludes that companies should encourage basic security hygiene rather than seek a silver bullet that does not exist.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #14, How Slack Stays Secure During Hyper Growth

In episode 15 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by James Governor, Analyst and Co-founder of RedMonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm. The pair discusses multiple ways that companies can be incentivized, and how they can incentivize others, to invest in and improve security.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #15, Enterprise Security with RedMonk's James Governor

In episode 16 of The Secure Developer, Guy is joined by Masha Sedova, co-founder of Elevate Security, to discuss how training for employees (even developers) can help companies stay one step ahead of the pack when it comes to preventing a breach.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #16, Security Training with Elevate's Masha Sedova

In episode 17 of The Secure Developer, Guy meets up with Adrian Colyer, Venture Partner at Accel and author of The Morning Paper, a daily recap of academic articles in computer science. The pair investigates how researchers are discovering new side-channel attacks and vulnerabilities that look, at first glance, like they're out of a science fiction or spy novel.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #17, Security Research with The Morning Paper's Adrian Colyer

In episode 18 of The Secure Developer, Guy meets with Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, a platform for vulnerability coordination and a bug bounty program that helps developers test and build more secure systems.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #18, Collaborative Security with HackerOne's Marten Mickos

In episode 19 of The Secure Developer, Guy meets with Allison Miller, SVP Engineering for Bank of America, to discuss the ways technology and security have intersected throughout her career.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #19, Measuring Security with Bank of America's Allison Miller

In episode 20 of The Secure Developer, Guy speaks to Dan Cornell of Denim Group, the developer security firm behind ThreadFix, a vulnerability resolution platform.

The Secure Developer - Ep. #20, Using ThreadFix with Dan Cornell of Denim Group

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