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Seems like a long way away but believe it or not preparations for Black Hat USA 2023 are well underway! In particular tickets for Black Hat’s highly sought after training courses are already on sale and doing brisk business. Was preparing for my course, building a high value access scanning program, I’ve had a little … Continue reading Five Black Hat USA courses that caught my eye, (#5 won’t shock you at all!)
Introduction I wrote the original version of this blogpost almost a year ago when I got a new laptop. The post offered a few options although in the end I only used the 3rd option. Also, during 2022, git added support for SSH commit signing and so did GitHub which significantly simplifies the process of … Continue reading Getting multiple GitHub accounts on one Linux/WSLÂ machine – 2023 update
In 2022 I prepared a talk, aimed at non-security people working on building software such as developers and DevOps engineers. The aim was to introduce them to some key ways in which OWASP can help them level up their security knowledge and practices for either free or very cheap.
I am delivering training courses on how to build effective processes around application security scanning tools as part of my work for Bounce Security. The course’s official name is “Building a High-Value AppSec Scanning Programme” and it’s unofficial, more fun but less descriptive name is “Tune your Toolbox for Velocity and Value”. This post will serve as a way of getting more information about the course.
BEFORE YOU START READING I created an updated version of this post for 2023 which focuses on the easiest method of setting this up, uses SSH commit signing instead of GPG which also significantly simplifies things and fixes a few errors. So if you are looking for an easier solution then you might want to … Continue reading Getting multiple GitHub accounts on one Linux/WSL machine
I recently had the privilege of attending and speaking at the OWASP AppSec USA 2018 conference in San Jose, California, one of OWASP'S global events. This was the first time I had attended a OWASP global event despite having attended chapter meet-ups and regional conferences so I wanted to take this opportunity to pull out some of my highlights.
There are some great security technologies out there to act as a defensive layer in front of your application. However, if you want an efficient application security test, I would strongly suggest that you disable them for your tester unless you are looking for some really niche, edge-case bugs.
Josh Grossman - Application Security Specialist 