Open source verification with Sal Kimmich

Josh chats with Sal Kimmich about the current state of everything, and what we can expect next. Sal has some incredible insight into what we can expect to see due to the current wave of security bugs and incidents. There are some new features we will need in both our hardware and software to ward off the state of things. Since those features are years away, what we need in the short term is shoring up our SDLC programs. Sal has some really good medical examples and analogies for this one. It’s a huge problem but not insurmountable.

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Vulnerability disclosure with Casey Ellis

Josh talks to Casey Ellis about why vulnerability disclosure is so hard, and also so important. Casey is one of the best in this space having been a Bugcrowd founder. There are few people with more experience and insight into how a security vulnerability should be handled, and why the explosion of AI is making all this much harder than it’s ever been before. While finding vulnerabilities is easy, reporting them is still a lot of work. Casey is working on helping everyone better understand all this with his disclose.io project.

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