Tag: Application Security

Software Engineering Security Culture

We need to fix the culture, from top to bottom in the software engineering industry. Here are just some of the issues as I see them and what we should be doing about them.

Threat Modeling Gameplay with EoP

Coming soon to a bookshelf near you, Threat Modeling Gameplay with EoP: A reference manual for spotting threats in software architecture

Threat Modeling Remotely with Miro and EoP

Threat modeling with teams is a process that requires visuals, interaction between team members and discussion and so lends itself to everyone being in a room together. This has been quite hard the last two years. It also doesn’t look to be getting any easier, so we should probably get used to it. Here’s how I’ve been doing it with several teams.

Application Security is More than Just Pen Testing

So often organizations believe that Application Security stops at penetration testing and fixing vulnerabilities but it is more than that, penetration testing is the reactive side of things but you also need the proactive aspects of Application Security to reduce the flow.

OWASP - Application Security Awareness Campaigns

I’ve just launched the first OWASP Application Security Awareness Campaign with 11 Posters of the OWASP Top Ten 2021 project.

Calculating Risk Across Project Real-estate using Graph Analysis

Prioritising remediation of vulnerabilities based on effective impact and risk using PageRank.

Introduction to SAML for Managers

SAML allows your users to be authenticated and authorized without direct interaction with your web site. It does this by creating a trust relationship between the site and a trusted third party who vouches for the identity of the user. This article explains both how this happens and what the additional benefits are.