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We return to the practice of presentations, this time with a perspective from a conference organizer. And we have tons of questions! What makes a topic stand out? How can an old, boring topic be given new life? How do you prepare as a first-time presenter? What can conferences do to foster better presentations and new voices? Segment resources:      Vulns in Jenkins code and Cisco devices that make us think about secure designs, MiraclePtr pulls off a relatively quick miracle, code lasts while domains expire, an "Artificial Intelligence chip" from the 90s, and more! Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Getting Your First Conference Presentation - Sarah Harvey - ASW #271

We can't talk about OWASP without talking about lists, but we go beyond the lists to talk about a product security framework. Grant shares his insights on what makes lists work (and not work). More importantly, he shares the work he's doing to spearhead a new OWASP project to help scale the creation of appsec programs, whether you're on your own or part of a global org. Segment Resources:         Qualys discloses syslog and qsort vulns in glibc, Apple's jailbroken iPhone for security researchers, moving away from OpenSSL, what an ancient vuln in image parsing can teach us today, and more! Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Starting an OWASP Project (That's Not a List!) - Grant Ongers - ASW #272

We've been scanning code for decades. Sometimes scanning works well -- it finds meaningful flaws to fix. Sometimes it distracts us with false positives. Sometimes it burdens us with too many issues. We talk about finding a scanning strategy that works well and what the definition of "works well" should even be. Segment Resources:    LLMs improve fuzzing coverage, the Shim vuln threatens Linux secure boot, considering AI application threat models, a new language for a configuration file format, and more! Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Creating Code Security Through Better Visibility - Christien Rioux - ASW #273

Check out this interview from the ASW Vault, hand picked by main host Mike Shema! This segment was originally published on Dec 13, 2022. Threat modeling is an important part of a security program, but as companies grow you will choose which features you want to threat model or become a bottleneck. What if I told you, you can have your cake and eat it too. It is possible to scale your program and deliver higher quality threat models. Segment Resources: - Original blog:  - Open Sourced slides:  Show Notes:

Redefining Threat Modeling - Security Team Goes on Vacation - Jeevan Singh - ASW Vault

Farshad Abasi joins us again to talk about creating a new OWASP project, the Secure Pipeline Verification Standard. (Bonus points for not being a top ten list!) We talk about what it takes to pitch a new project and the problems that this new project is trying to solve. For this kind of project to be successful -- as in making a positive impact to how software is built -- it's important to not only identify the right audience, but craft guidance in a way that's understandable and achievable for that audience. This is also a chance to learn more about a project in its early days and the opportunities for participating in its development! Segment resources   (coming soon!)  PrintListener recreates fingerprints, iMessage updates key handling for a PQ3 rating, Silent Sabotage shows supply chain subterfuge against AI models, 2023 Rust survey results, the ways genAI might help developers, and more! Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Creating the Secure Pipeline Verification Standard - Farshad Abasi - ASW #274

The need for vuln management programs has been around since the first bugs -- but lots of programs remain stuck in the past. We talk about the traps to avoid in VM programs, the easy-to-say yet hard-to-do foundations that VM programs need, and smarter ways to approach vulns based in modern app development. We also explore the ecosystem of acronyms around vulns and figure out what's useful (if anything) in CVSS, SSVC, EPSS, and more. Segment resources:       -- For a bit of history, one of the earliest "bugs bounty" from 1995.  A SilverSAML example similar to the GoldenSAML attack technique, more about serializing AI models for Hugging Face, OWASP releases 1.0 of the IoT Security Testing Guide, the White House releases more encouragement to move to memory-safe languages, and more! Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

The Simple Mistakes and Complex Seeds of a Vulnerability Management Program - Emily Fox - ASW #275

Popup Porn, LoveSense, Tea, Fire Ant, Scatterede Spider, AI Pricing, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Popup Porn, LoveSense, Tea, Fire Ant, Scatterede Spider, AI Pricing, Josh Marpet... - SWN #498

The Weekly Enterprise News (segments 1 and 2) This week, we’ve had to make some last minute adjustments, so we’re going to do the news first, split into two segments. This week, we’re discussing:  Some interesting funding Two acquisitions - one picked up for $250M, the other slightly larger, at $25 BILLION Interesting new companies! On the 1 year anniversary of that thing that happened, Crowdstrike would like to assure you that they’re REALLY making sure that thing never happens again Flipping the script How researchers rooted Copilot, but not really talks to check out at Hacker Summer Camp detection engineering tips the Cloud Security Alliance has a new AI Controls Matrix sending in the National Guard to handle a breach! and how to read an AI press release  Interview: Guillaume Ross on Building Security from Scratch Guillaume shares his experiences building security from scratch at Canadian FinTech, Finaptic. Imagine the situation: you're CISO, and literally NOTHING is in place yet. No policies, no controls, no GRC processes. Where do you start? What do you do first? Are there things you can get away with that would be impossible in older, well-established financial firms? Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Weekly Enterprise Security News and Tips on Building Security From Day 1 - Guillaume Ross - ESW #418

Recent findings of AI ecosystem insecurities and attacks show the importance of needing AI governance in the supply chain. And this supply chain is rapidly expanding to include not only open-source software but also collaborative platforms where custom models, agents, prompts, and other AI resources are used. And with this expansion of third-party AI component and services use comes an expanded security threat often not included in traditional supply chain management processes. It's time to update our supply chain management process to include AI governance. Easier said than done. In this Say Easy, Do Hard segment, we invite three CISOs to discuss the challenges of AI and the supply chain, including:  Data privacy concerns Flaws and malicious code in AI dependencies Lack of security tools to test for AI Vibe coding risks  and more. But we also do the hard part, by discussing the changes needed to your supply chain management process to address these concerns. Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Say Easy, Do Hard - AI Governance in the Supply Chain - Richard Bird, Nick Mistry - BSW #407

This week we have, SonicWall, Confidential Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity vs robots.txt, Microsoft’s Project Ire, Meta–Flo Jury Verdict, GPT‑5 Lands, TeaOnHer Data Leak, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.. Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

SonicWall, Informants Exposed, Cisco Vishing, Perplexity, GPT‑5, Josh Marpet–SWN #501 - SWN #501

Why should hate AI When firmware attacks The 300 second breach Old ways still work, AI might help And so begins the crawler wars Turn off your SonicWall VPN Your Pie may be wrapped in PII Attackers will find a way Signed kernel drivers D-Link on the KEV Rasperry PIs attack Stealthy LoRa LLM's don't commit code, people do Jame's Bond style rescue with drones SRAM has no chill In the full view of the public...  Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Devices Are Attacking - PSW #886

Open source software is a massive contribution that provides everything from foundational frameworks to tiny single-purpose libraries. We walk through the dimensions of trust and provenance in the software supply chain with Janet Worthington. And we discuss how even with new code generated by LLMs and new terms like slopsquatting, a lot of the most effective solutions are old techniques. Resources     Show Notes:

The Future of Supply Chain Security - Janet Worthington - ASW #343

300 Baud, Buddy Hackett Nudes, Dell, badUSB, Exchange, Erlang/OTP, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

300 Baud, Buddy Hackett Nudes, Dell, badUSB, Exchange, Erlang/OTP, Josh Marpet... - SWN #502

We kick things off with a deep dive into the Hackberry PI and how to build one. Then in the security news:  Will Perplexity buy Chrome? ESP32 Bus Pirates Poisoned telemetry Docker image security Fully Open Source Quantum Sensors Securing your car, Flippers, and show me the money Bringing your printer and desktop to Starbucks Paying a ransom? You need approval AI: Shield or Spear? No authentication? That's a problem Transient Bugs: A realistic threat? You can run Linux And who still uses AOL dial-up?  Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Hackberry PIs and Other Hacker Things - PSW #887

A smaller attack surface should lead to a smaller list of CVEs to track, which in turn should lead to a smaller set of vulns that you should care about. But in practice, keeping something like a container image small has a lot of challenges in terms of what should be considered minimal. Neil Carpenter shares advice and anecdotes on what it takes to refine a container image and to change an org's expectations that every CVE needs to be fixed. Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Managing the Minimization of a Container Attack Surface - Neil Carpenter - ASW #344

The industry is obsessed with vulnerabilities. From vulnerability assessment to vulnerability management to exposure management and even zero days, we love to talk about vulnerabilities. But what about misconfiguration? By definition it's a vulnerability or weakness, but it doesn't have a CVE (common vulnerability enumeration). Should we ignore it? Danny Jenkins, CEO and Founder at ThreatLocker, joins BSW to discuss why misconfigurations matter. Simply, you can prevent many cyberattacks by eliminating your misconfigurations. That's why ThreatLocker released Defense Against Configurations (DAC). Danny will discuss the benefits of DAC, including:  Immediate visibility into system misconfigurations before they become vulnerabilities Compliance transparency, showing exactly where systems fall short of industry standards One unified view, with filters by criticality, system, and framework Actionable insights, updated weekly and delivered straight to customers’ inboxes  Segment Resources:     This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit  to learn more about them! In the leadership and communications segment, CEO Blind Spots That Put Your Company at Risk, The CISO Mindset Shift: From Risk Defender to Business Accelerator in the Age of AI, When “Yes, and…” Backfires, and more! Visit  for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:

Misconfiguration, The Forgotten Vulnerability and the Power and Failure of "Yes" - Danny Jenkins - BSW #409

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