Application Security Weekly (Video‪)‬ Security Weekly

Misusing random numbers, protecting platforms for code repos and package repos, vulns that teach us about designs and defaults, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-283

Companies deploy tools (usually lots of tools) to address different threats to supply chain security. Melinda Marks shares some of the chaos those companies still face when trying to prioritize investments, measure risk, and scale their solutions to keep pace with their development. Not only are companies still figuring out supply chain, but now they're bracing for the coming of genAI and how that will just further highlight the current struggles they're having with data security and data privacy.
Segment Resources:
Complete Survey Results: The Growing Complexity of Securing the Software Supply Chain
https://research.esg-global.com/reportaction/515201781/Toc 
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-283

CISA chimes in on the XZ Utils backdoor, PuTTY's private keys and maintaining a secure design, LeakyCLI and maintaining secure secrets in CSPs, LLMs and exploit generation, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-282

How can open source projects find a funding model that works for them? What are the implications with different sources of funding? Simon Bennetts talks about his stewardship of Zed Attack Proxy and its journey from OWASP to OpenSSF to an Open Source Fellowship with Crash Override. Mark Curphy adds how his experience with OWASP and the appsec community motivated him to create Crash Override and help projects like ZAP gain the support they deserve.
Segment resources:
https://crashoverride.com/blog/welcome-zap-to-the-open-source-fellowship https://www.zaproxy.org https://crashoverride.com/blog/are-there-too-many-bubbles-of-similar-security-efforts Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-282

A Rust advisory highlights the perils of parsing and problems of inconsistent approaches, D-Link (sort of) deals with end of life hardware, CSRB recommends practices and processes for Microsoft, Chrome’s V8 Sandbox increases defense, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-281

There are as many paths into infosec as there are disciplines within infosec to specialize in. Karan Dwivedi talks about the recent book he and co-author Raaghav Srinivasan wrote about security engineering. There's an appealing future to security taking on engineering roles and creating solutions to problems that orgs face. We talk about the breadth and depth of security engineering and ways to build the skills that will help you in your appsec career.
Segment resources:
https://kickstartseceng.com Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-281