In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Robert Hurlbut about what it means to make an application, not just the code, secure. Robert is a Principal Application Security Architect and Threat Modeling Lead at Aquia, a PhD student at Cap TechU and co-host of the Application Security Podcast.

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Security Requires Traveling the Unhappy Path - A Conversation with Robert Hurlbut

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Chad Whitacre about  the Open Source Pledge, an initiative to encourage companies to financially support open-source maintainers to ensure the sustainability and security of the software they depend on. The goal is to address the social contract within open source, where companies benefit from freely available software and should reciprocate to support its creators.

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