You may not be aware but Canada's Public Safety department put out a call to Canadian Citizens (sorry brilliant people who are not Canadian), asking for ideas, suggestions and thoughts on what they should prioritize next for the Canadian Government for InfoSec. I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS AND WROTE THEM IMMEDIATELY. Obviously…
I haven’t written in my personal blog in a while, and I have good reasons (I moved to a new city, the new place will be a farm, I restarted my international travel, something secret that I can’t announce yet, and also did I mention I was a bit busy?). But I still can’t get…
Three years ago I decided that I would share most of my talk content with my community (everything that I am not currently applying to conferences with). At the time, I only shared one, because.... I ran out of time. Now it's time to share the second talk, "Security is Everybody's Job!" By “share” I…
Almost all of the people who respond to my #CyberMentoringMonday tweets each week say that they want to “get into InfoSec” or “become a Penetration Tester”; they rarely choose any other jobs or are more specific than that. I believe the reason for this is that they are not aware of all the different areas within the…
Recently someone asked me what the difference was between Applications and Infrastructure. He asked why a Linux operating system wasn't "software" and I said it was but it's a perfect copy... I tend to speak about 'custom software'. We ended up talking for a very long time about it, and I thought a blog post…
Happier times, before I knew anything about log4j. Over the past 2 weeks many people working in IT have been dealing with the fallout of the vulnerabilities and exploits being carried out against servers and applications using the popular Log4J java library. Information security people have been responding 24/7 to the incident, operations folks have…
For those who do not follow myself or Franziska Bühler, we have an open source project together called OWASP DevSlop in which we explore DevSecOps through writing vulnerable apps, creating pipelines, publishing proof of concepts, and documenting what we’ve learned on our YouTube Channel and our blogs. In this article we will explore adding security headers to our proof of concept website, DevSlop.co.…
I recently had dinner with an old friend, Jesse Hones, the Engineering Manager of Systems / Senior Software Developer of Aprel. I remember when we first met he explained that he designed and programmed robots to measure radio frequencies at extremely precise levels. Fast forward a decade; I am an ethical hacker and he is designing more…
I’d like to define a couple of subjects that seem to be confused often in the industry of application security; Vulnerability Assessment (VA), Vulnerability Scan (VA Scan) and Penetration Test (PenTest). They are often used interchangeably, and the differences do not seem to be well-understood; I have seen this misunderstanding used against many clients who…
I met with my colleague Bryan Hughes the other day to discuss the security of a serverless app he’s creating for JSConf EU (there will be no spoilers about his creation, don’t worry). We had discussed the idea of threat modelling while on a business trip together and he wanted to give it a go. Since I am particularly…
