AppSec Village Goes Virtual #SafeMode At DEFCON 2020 | A Conversation With Organizers And Keynotes | With Fredrick Lee, Liora Herman, And Erez Yalon
08/03/20 • 30 min
Software runs the world. It runs our businesses, It runs the shops we visit. It helps produce the products we buy. It automates our homes. It controls our planes, trains, and automobiles. It even runs the International Space Station and recent trips to the ISS and Mars.
Because software is so embedded in everything we do and experience in life, it's clearly a critical element in securing our current and future digital worlds.
Last year at DEFCON, a dedicated team of application security professionals launched the inaugural AppSec Village. It was wildly successful and the crew was ready to bring on the 2nd installation to life in 2020 ... until DEFCON was canceled (no, really, it was, and is) - instead, DEFCON #SafeMode was born.
It was a tough decision for the team to figure out how best to proceed with the new virtual world they'd have to spin up. There was even a moment where they thought it might not be possible to pull it off in time.
But, what do you think came to the rescue here, giving them the opportunity to successfully bring the 2nd annual AppSec village to life for DEFCON #SafeMode? You guessed correctly if you said "software."
With the recent changes in the work where more people are working from home, schooling from home, shopping from home, and more - it also changes how software is built, deployed, and used - making it equally important to bring an AppSec Village that addresses these challenges and opportunities and more.
Go on - launch that app, have a listen, and enjoy the conversation.
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Fredrick Lee | Liora Herman | Erez Yalon
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Software runs the world. It runs our businesses, It runs the shops we visit. It helps produce the products we buy. It automates our homes. It controls our planes, trains, and automobiles. It even runs the International Space Station and recent trips to the ISS and Mars.
Because software is so embedded in everything we do and experience in life, it's clearly a critical element in securing our current and future digital worlds.
Last year at DEFCON, a dedicated team of application security professionals launched the inaugural AppSec Village. It was wildly successful and the crew was ready to bring on the 2nd installation to life in 2020 ... until DEFCON was canceled (no, really, it was, and is) - instead, DEFCON #SafeMode was born.
It was a tough decision for the team to figure out how best to proceed with the new virtual world they'd have to spin up. There was even a moment where they thought it might not be possible to pull it off in time.
But, what do you think came to the rescue here, giving them the opportunity to successfully bring the 2nd annual AppSec village to life for DEFCON #SafeMode? You guessed correctly if you said "software."
With the recent changes in the work where more people are working from home, schooling from home, shopping from home, and more - it also changes how software is built, deployed, and used - making it equally important to bring an AppSec Village that addresses these challenges and opportunities and more.
Go on - launch that app, have a listen, and enjoy the conversation.
Guest(s)
Fredrick Lee | Liora Herman | Erez Yalon
This Episode’s Sponsors:
Cequence: itspm.ag/itspcequweb
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When connecting with Winn Schwartau, it's never a dull moment and we find that we ALWAYS have a lively chat that can take many unexpected twists and turns. This conversation with Winn demonstrates this in every way possible.
Feeling like guinea pigs, we had the pleasure of Winn testing some of his new studio gear on us as he prepared for his upcoming virtual #HackerJeopardy taking place during DEFCON #SafeMode. A bit psychedelic at moments, at one point we got to see Winn in a whole new light: as the Wizard from the Wizard of Oz.
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ICS Village & CISA Talk DEFCON And The Future Of Critical Infrastructure | Bryson Bort & Bryan Ware
People around the world rely on local, state, national - and sometimes international - services enabled by critical infrastructure and related devices, systems, and applications. Sometimes they realize it - sometimes not. Many times, the services are taken for granted, only noticed when they go offline or otherwise malfunction.
The bottom line, humanity is dependent upon critical infrastructure and we need to take an active role to ensure all stakeholders and leaders recognize the cyber risk it possesses such that proper risk mitigation, attack protection and incident response measures are identified and implemented.
That's the goal both of our guests are driving during this conversation: Bryan Ware from the government, public sector perspective, and Bryson Bort from the commercial, private sector perspective.
As was evident during the conversation the current and future states of cybersecurity for our IT, OT, ICS and critical infrastructure at large depends on raising awareness, support research, enabling security-by-design at the directly at development layer, and interconnectivity between critical infrastructure elements (water, power, health, travel, etc.) AND between critical infrastructure constituents (government, academia, commercial, and society).
There's too much to recap here in this very important conversation. Have a listen, enjoy, share, and then spend some time with the ICS Village team and the CISA team as the conversations continue in both places. Of course, we'll be part of those conversations as well - it's far too important a topic to sit this one out.
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Bryan Ware, CISA
Bryson Bort, Co-Founder ICS Village
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