Lemons & Liability: What it Means for Software Applications

In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Karlo Zanki, a Reverse Engineer at ReversingLabs, about the state of software supply chain security in 2024. The two will review key findings on the software supply chain threat landscape in 2023, as well as what security and development teams can expect from malicious actors in 2024. Zanki will also highlight several of the major software supply chain security incidents discovered by RL threat researchers in the past year.

In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Mikaël Barbero, Head of Security at the Eclipse Foundation, about the state of open source software security. Eclipse has been around for more than two decades and has for a long time prioritized the mitigation of threats to open source projects. In their conversation, Mikaël chats with Paul about where Eclipse stands today, what current threats are being posed to open source repositories, as well as how nation-states and international organizations are working to combat these threats.  

In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Devin Byrd, Director of Threat Intelligence at Kandji on the sidelines of the 2023 Black Hat USA conference. In their conversation, Byrd discusses how Kandji has grown into a major security provider for macOS users, and how the attack vector for macOS and iOS users has increased in recent years. He explains that only dealing with adware and junkware on these devices was a thing of the past, but now, macOS devices are being targeted with malicious back doors and even software supply chain attacks. 

In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Kelly Shortridge, a Senior Principal at Fastly, on the sidelines of the 2023 Black Hat USA Conference. In their conversation, they discuss her new book, Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems, as well as her Black Hat talk, “Fast, Ever-Evolving Defenders: The Resilience Revolution.”  

In this episode of ConversingLabs, host Paul Roberts chats with Thomas Pace, the CEO & co-founder of the firmware security firm NetRise. Thomas and Paul talk about the shifting ground of threats and attacks as the Internet of Things grows and works its way into homes, businesses and industries - including critical infrastructure. They also talk about the growing specter of software supply chain threats and attacks. 

In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Daniel Woods, a Cybersecurity Lecturer at The University of Edinburgh on the sidelines of the 2023 Black Hat USA conference about his briefing: “Lemons and Liability: Cyber Warranties as an Experiment in Software Regulation.” 

In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Robert Martin of MITRE and Cassie Crossley of Schneider Electric about their session at this year’s RSA Conference. They explained how MITRE’s System of Trust can serve as a standard for software supply chain risk. The two also chatted with Paul about the greater issues facing software supply chains today, such as standardization and transparency. 

In this episode, host Paul Roberts chats with Naveen Srinivasan, an OpenSSF Scorecard Maintainer, about his talk at this year’s RSA Conference on how to better trust open source software. In their conversation, Naveen explains how the OpenSSF Scorecard tool can help developers understand the security posture of open source dependencies.

In this episode, we interview Chris Romeo, CEO of Kerr Ventures and long-time application security (app sec) practitioner on the sidelines of the 2023 RSA Conference. He gives a rundown on the state of app sec and comments on other software threats posed to organizations today. 

In this episode of ConversingLabs, host Paul Roberts chats with John Jackson, a security researcher, about the work he and research group Sakura Samurai did in looking at exposed secrets and other threats on Indian government websites.