Crabby Code – ASW #104
This week, we welcome Rebecca Black, Senior Staff Application Security Engineer at Avalara, to talk about Building an AppSec Ecosystem! This week in the Application Security News, JSON Web Token Validation Bypass in Auth0 Authentication API, Mining for malicious Ruby gems, A Brief History of a Rootable Docker Image, Privacy In The Time Of COVID, and Threat modeling explained: A process for anticipating cyber attacks!
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1. Building an AppSec Ecosystem – Rebecca Deck – ASW #104
It's possible to check the boxes and have an AppSec program that looks great on paper, but still not have positive results. We will cover using continuous feedback from AppSec testing activities passing through threat models to make life better for AppSec, red teams, QA, and engineers.
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Rebecca Deck is a Staff Application Security Engineer at Avalara. She determines application security tools and strategy and (hopefully) gets to perform application security testing. She has more than 20 years of experience in IT that includes QA, software development, engineering, incident response, and consulting. She’s currently quarantined with her wife and kids living the dream of working and home schooling.
2. Malicious Ruby Gems & JSON Web Token Bypass – ASW #104
This week in the Application Security News, JSON Web Token Validation Bypass in Auth0 Authentication API, Mining for malicious Ruby gems, A Brief History of a Rootable Docker Image, Privacy In The Time Of COVID, and Threat modeling explained: A process for anticipating cyber attacks!