Threat Modeling That Helps the Business – Sandy Carielli, Akira Brand – ASW #316
Threat modeling has been in the appsec toolbox for decades. But it hasn't always been used and it hasn't always been useful. Sandy Carielli shares what she's learned from talking to orgs about what's been successful, and what's failed, when they've approached this practice. Akira Brand joins to talk about her direct experience with building threat models with developers.
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Guests
Sandy is a principal analyst at Forrester advising security and risk professionals on application security, with a particular emphasis on the collaboration among security and risk, application development, operations, and business teams. Her research covers topics such as proactive security design, security testing in the software delivery lifecycle, protection of applications in production environments, and remediation of hardware and software flaws.
Akira Brand is the AVP of Application Security at PRAGroup, a publicly traded financial services company. An avid educator and passionate technologist, she speaks on AppSec and cybersecurity topics around the world.