James talks about the Facebook breach and shares some insights into how you can take steps to prevent this type of incident in your applications. For more info go to https://www.developsec.com or follow us on twitter (@developsec). DevelopSec provides application security consulting and training to add value to your application security program. Contact us today to see how we can help. … [Read more...] about Ep. 106: Facebook Breach Take-aways and Insights
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Ep. 105: Interview with Eric Johnson
I sit down with Eric Johnson to talk about security in the IDE and other fun topics. A bit longer than usual, but full of great information. You can reach out to Eric on twitter @emjohn20 or check out his site at https://www.pumascan.com. For more info go to https://www.developsec.com or follow us on twitter (@developsec). DevelopSec provides application security consulting and training to add value to your application security program. Contact us today to see how we can help. … [Read more...] about Ep. 105: Interview with Eric Johnson
Ep. 104: Securing Devops with Julien Vehent
James sits down with Julien Vehent to discuss his new book "Securing DevOps" and talk about security in a devOps world. Julien (@jvehent) is a security architect and engineering manager with over 15 years of experience in large organizations and web companies. He is currently responsible for the operational security of Firefox's backend infrastructure at Mozilla, and is the author of Securing DevOps. Check out the book (Securing DevOps) at … [Read more...] about Ep. 104: Securing Devops with Julien Vehent
Ep. 103: Is 3rd Party Authentication Right For Your Application?
The headlines are filled with credential breaches. One way to avoid being those headlines is to not store credentials. Instead, use a 3rd party to authenticate your users. While this cuts a lot of work out of your development time, it is important to understand the pros and cons to each method. James talks through some of these risks to help better understand which method might be right for you. Links from show: Ep. 92: 2-Factor Authentication - … [Read more...] about Ep. 103: Is 3rd Party Authentication Right For Your Application?
Ep. 102: Intro to Web Security Policies
In this episode James introduces us to the idea of web security policies stored in a security.txt file. We have talked about vulnerability disclosure before and this ties directly into that conversation. Link to Draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-foudil-securitytxt-03 Link to form to create the file: https://securitytxt.org/ Link to our blog post: https://www.developsec.com/2018/06/26/overview-of-web-security-policies/ For more info go to https://www.developsec.com or follow us on … [Read more...] about Ep. 102: Intro to Web Security Policies
Checking npm packages using npm-audit
Our applications rely more and more on external packages to enable quick deployment and ease of development. While these packages help reduce the code we have to write ourselves, it still may present risk to our application. If you are building Nodejs applications, you are probably using npm to manage your packages. For those that don't know, npm is the node package manager. It is a direct source to quickly include functionality within your application. For example, say you want to hash your … [Read more...] about Checking npm packages using npm-audit