Ideas and Opinions from the Trenches

There are lots of ways we can optimise what we do, through a data driven approach, but we need to be careful and use critical and creative thinking.

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 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.