How to go from no CSP to a solid CSP, automatically creating baseline security tests from a threat model, tools to automagically decode random blobs.
GitHub security engineer Neil Matatall gives an overview of CSP: how it works, how to go from no CSP to a solid CSP, and how GitHub implements CSP.
Protecting your public S3 buckets, how to find, prevent, and fix regular expression DoS, and walk step-by-step through the OAuth flow.
Using lightweight formal methods in the real world, new web mitigations for injection vulns and isolation capabilities, GPT-3 is magic.
A collection of container security resources and tools, organized by category.
Jean Yang, Hongyi Hu, and Hillel Wayne discuss making programming languages/model checking more accessible, give an overview of TLA+ and Alloy, and successfu...
How to continuously discover, monitor, and assess your web assets, threat modeling + agile, Richard Feynman on the problems you choose to tackle.
tl;dr sec now supports search, snapshotting VMs at scale in a way malware can’t evade, reflections on why we procrastinate.
Overview of current work threat modeling Kubernetes, a repo to test your secret scanning, and v1 of OWASP’s standard on identifying/reducing supply chain risk.
Uber describes their continuous cloud monitoring service and the workflows and process design that makes it successfully adopted by engineering teams.
Uber continuous AWS monitoring tool and process, how AWS does safe, fast, continuous deployment, tool to auto-delete no longer needed feature flags.
Measuring the effectiveness of your security controls, web security tools and slides, auto-converting between Java/C++/Python and integrating formal methods.
Effectively teaching devs threat modeling, forging and cracking JWTs, and some radical transparency about our process of deciding to accept sponsors.
tl;dr sec’s goals, values, and our thought process behind accepting sponsors. Sponsors will be clearly demarcated and will not affect the rest of the content.
Using Kubernetes + OPA, Twitter SAST snark & lessons learned, malware discovered on GitHub targeting the open source supply chain.
An AWS Security Maturity Roadmap for 2020, fuzzing the Windows kernel & differential crypto fuzzing, easily spin up a cloud env for security testing
Building a successful career in security and how to specialize, testing OAuth implementations, and a Burp plugin for handling session management.
Game theory applied to finding and disclosing 0days, Kubernetes training labs, rightsize your AWS IAM policies to Terraform.
Set up your own range to practice attacking & detection, detection strategies for compromised cloud creds, intro to Azure AD for red teamers.
Gusto CISO Flee on building a positive security culture, protecting from/attacking with Chrome extensions, pivot through Azure AD.
Use Frida from a Burp extension or web interface, continuous cloud security, fighting misinformation at scale.
How to secure your home WiFi network, Microsoft releases ATT&CK matrix for Kubernetes, free 550+ page book by Google’s SREs on building secure systems.
Tool for testing GraphQL endpoints, how to run a great bug bounty program, restricting your AWS account with Service Control Policies, hardening Linux.
Some history and overview of fuzzing, preventing/detecting/remediating leaked secrets, static analysis, macOS security, reflections on privacy post COVID-19.
Richard Johnson describes the history of fuzzing, the primary types of fuzzing, modern tools and advancements, SDLC integration, and more.
I was on Application Security Weekly #100, a no-nonsense guide to becoming SOC2 compliant, fight a bill that may kill encryption, compensation resources.
Jon Oberheide on Duo, self-healing AWS environments, Google’s fuzzer benchmarking and CIFuzz, securing Windows & MS accounts at scale.
Jon Oberheide on Duo’s story, from conception through acquisition, and the important lessons he learned along the way.
Round-up of BSidesSF and RSA + my updated slides, overview of container security, pen testing K8s walkthrough, maintaining privacy online.
I’m speaking at BSidesSF and RSA 2020, tl;dr sec stickers, stateful fuzzing of Swagger APIs, auto-remediate AWS issues, canary pro-tips, red team cheatsheets.
OSINT tools, tips, & tricks, presentations on automatically find and exploiting bugs, a code-aware grep, how to assess another company’s security posture.
DevSecOps talks & tools from AppSec Cali, PoCs to decrypt WhatsApp messages, Kubernetes monitoring and CTF, Python static analysis tools.
I’m speaking at AppSec Cali 2020, details on Bezos’s phone being hacked, fuzzing talks and tools, Java deserialization, K8s and GraphQL tools.
Detailed summaries of ~32 hours of talks, searchable and grouped by category, to supercharge your security program 🚀
How to be successful as the first security hire at a startup, what should inform your priorities, where to focus to make an immediate impact, and time sinks ...
Google’s BeyondProd and code provenance whitepapers, tools to scan Terraform scripts / CloudFormation templates, getting into security resources.
Blue teams can become highly leveraged by sharing knowledge effectively, Ring’s partnerships with the police, viewing ransomware through an economic lens.
A number of interesting new AWS services, backdoors on PyPI, I had a blast on the Absolute AppSec podcast, and tl;dr sec hits 500 subscribers! 🚀
Building an effective vulnerability management process, K8s/AWS tips, network & code scanning tools, privacy preserving VA, and the Siege of Gondor.
Alexandra Nassar of Medallia describes how to create a positive vulnerability management culture and process that works for engineers and the security team.
Summary of an AppSec Cali 2019 talk on more efficient network penetration tests via clustering similar screenshots, fuzzing tools and articles, Bugcrowd/Bitd...
How to get faster, more complete external attack surface coverage by automatically clustering exposed web apps by visual similarity.
DevSecCon Tel Aviv 2019 talk notes, Slack releases Nebula, AWS instance metadata hardening, OSINT tips, struct padding can leak heap memory, deadlock challen...
Practical steps to start managing your secrets properly, continuous threat modeling, container security stats and best practices, and my thoughts on the futu...
Gusto’s Nathan Yee on being impacful as an IC without a senior title in a start-up, intentionally vulnerable AWS infrastructure for training, and even more a...
Gusto security engineer Nathan Yee describes his experiences and lessons learned on how to be effective as the only AppSec engineer at a start-up, without a ...
Browser default SameSite cookie settings will mostly kill CSRF, and a malicious header can block any web resource served by a CDN or proxy cache.
Some ShellCon talk summaries, Dropbox and Twilio on detection and response automation, updates from the Chrome security team.
Cloudflare’s CTO on how they think about security, Salesforce’s tool to make IAM least privilege policy generation easier, and finding XSS in Firefox’s UI us...
Fuzzing is finding security bugs faster than CVEs can be issued, HTTP desync attacks advance, China’s censorship power is felt around the world.
Notes from DevSecCon Seattle 2019, featuring insights on dev/security organizational structure, secure wrapper libraries, and continuous compliance.
Notes from an AppSec Cali 2019 panel, AWS security tools, fuzzing with grammars and Gitlab, and Google P0’s iOS exploit chain discovery.
Learn how Netflix, Dropbox, Datadog, Snap, and DocuSign think about security. A masterclass in DevSecOps and modern AppSec best practices.
The transcript for this AppSec Cali 2019 DevSecOps panel featuring security leaders from Netflix, Dropbox, Datadog, Snap, and DocuSign.
Neat talks from Hacker Summer Camp on email -> phone number, DNS rebinding, automated C++ reverse engineering, and publicly exposed AWS EBS volumes.
In this Black Hat USA 2017 keynote, Alex Stamos discusses how the world has changed around the security community, some ways we’re focusing on the wrong thin...
Arkadiy Tetelman describes how to effectively launch a bug bounty program and how tracking vulnerability metrics can make an AppSec team more impactful.
Koen Hendrix describes analyzing the security maturity of Riot product teams, measuring that maturity’s impact quantitatively using bug bounty data, and disc...
Vidhu Jayabalan and Laksh Raghavan present SCORE-Bot, PayPal’s light-weight, continuous code scanning tool that hooks into their CI/CD pipeline.
There’s been a lot of great research in SecDevOps over the past few years. This talk organizes and references around 40 useful talks in the space.