Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) - Portland, Oregon Chapter

Our special guest today is Michael Allen Lake who is a digital transformation consultant focused on innovation and change adoption within the Federal government. He has worked on projects at nine different Federal agencies. His experience ranges from helping organizations leverage data as a strategic asset to the adoption and promotion of enterprise-wide cloud computing and artificial intelligence initiatives. In addition, Michael ...

Our special guest today is Sarba Roy. Sarba is currently a Product Security Consultant at Umpqua Bank where she is collaborating and acting as a security advisor to the product teams when new digital technologies and/or business needs are identified. She is also the Oregon Affiliate Membership Chair for Women In CyberSecurity (WiCyS), and she also the Oregon Chapter Lead for Infosec Girls and a founding member of WomenH2H, a global...

Our special guest today is Aarti Gadhia. She is a highly successful cybersecurity professional who has worked in various leadership roles in sales and marking for well-known companies such as Bugcrowd, Carbon Black, Trend Micro and Sophos. Aarti is also the founder of Standout to Lead and SHE (Sharing Her Empowerment). Aarti is passionate about bridging the diversity gap in STEM and in leadership. She recently presented at our OWAS...

Our special guest today is Jeff Williams, Co-Founder and CTO of Contrast Security. Jeff was one of the pioneering members who formed the Open Web Application Security Project® (OWASP). Not only did he chair it, he also contributed to many successful open source projects, including WebGoat, the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), the OWASP Top Ten and much more.  Without him and others we would not be doing this...

Our special guest today is Frank Heidt who is the CEO and Co-Founder at Leviathan Security Group. Frank is a recognized expert in the fields of information assurance, network security and systems penetration. Prior to starting Leviathan, Frank was a managing security architect for @stake. He also engaged in various computer and networking security projects for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of the Navy. You ...

Our guests today are Rebekah Brown and Scott J. Roberts. They wrote a seminal book together called Intelligence-Driven Incident Response: Outwitting the Adversary. Both have extensive backgrounds in information security. Rebekah started her work as an intelligence and network warfare analyst while honorably serving in the United States Marine Corps, and Scott comes from a more traditional yet impressive background in defensive netw...

On Saturday, June 19, 2021 something very special is going to happen. For the first time, a perfect trifecta of OWASP chapters in the Pacific Northwest are getting together to host a virtual conference focused on serious application security. It's called the Pacific Northwest Application Security Conference (PNWSEC). The chapters hosting this fine event are from the beautiful, breathtaking Canadian cities of Vancouver and Vict...

Our special guest today is Jonathan Badeen, He is one of the co-founders of Tinder and has been its Chief Strategy Officer since March 2016. He is a programmer, designer and inventor, including Tinder's famous #SwipeRight feature. His other work experiences include Cardify, Chegg Flashcards, Casting Networks' FastCapture & Match Made. He is also an actor with credits in Zombie Wars (2007), The Proposal (2008) and Swip...

Our guest today is Nabil Hannan, who is a Managing Director at NetSPI. He leads the company’s consulting practice, focusing on helping clients solve their cyber security assessment, and threat & vulnerability management needs. He has over 13 years of experience in cyber security consulting from his tenure at Cigital/Synopsys Software Integrity Group. Nabil has also worked as a Product Manager at Research In Motion (now, of cour...

John Strand is our special guest today. He is the owner of Black Hills Information Security - a company that specializes in penetration testing and security architecture services. He is also  cofounder of Active Countermeasures. He created the popular Backdoors and Breaches incident response card game. He wrote a book called Offensive Countermeasures (The Art of Active Defense). He can watch him along with other great guests on the...

Our special guests today are Lewis Ardern and PwnFunction. Lewis is an Associate Principal Consultant at Synopsys where he focuses on web application security. He is also an organizer for the OWASP Bay Area Chapter. Check out his new SecuriTEA and Crumpets videos on YouTube. PwnFunction is an independent security consultant. He makes popular hacking videos on YouTube. He also created a popular online cross-site scripting (XSS) game...

We have three very special guests today. All come from different backgrounds but share a common interest in gaming - the kind that can be used to teach you things, like how to become better at handling security incidents or winning a historical insurrection.

This podcast is sponsored by the We Hack Purple Academy.

Volko Ruhnke is a renowned wargame designer and educator. He retired as a career analyst with the CI...

Our very special guest today is Caroline Wong.  She is the Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt.  As CSO, Caroline leads the Security, Community, and People teams at Cobalt. She brings a proven background in communications, cybersecurity, and experience delivering global programs to the role.

Caroline’s close and practical information security knowledge stems from her broad experience as a Cigital consultant, a Symantec produc...

Our special guest today is Jim Manico. He is the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He is also the co-founder of the LocoMoco Security Conference in Hawaii as well as an investor and advisor for BitDiscovery and Signal Sciences. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of...

Our distinguished guest today is Bruce Schneier. Bruce is a public-interest security and privacy technologist, cryptographer, an author of over one dozen books, including the famous blue and red versions of Applied Cryptography. His most recent book is Click Here to Kill Everybody. He is a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Bruce's blog, Schneier on Se...

Our guest today is Fredrik Alexandersson. You probably know him better as STÖK. He is a highly regarded Swedish hacker and cyber-security advisor with passions in technology and sustainable fashion. Our conversation today is about hacking and bug bounties. STÖK brings to the table many years of experience with a refreshingly positive perspective in our never-ending quest to find that next security bug in a dark world we call softwa...

Our guest today is Terry Dunlap. Arrested at 17 while hacking with a Commodore 64, Terry went on to work for the US National Security Agency to help track terrorists. He left the NSA in 2007 to bootstrap Tactical Network Solutions, an offensive-focused cyber company catering to the world's friendly foreign governments and militaries. Today he's a co-founder of ReFirm Labs, an IoT-focused cybersecurity company. 

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