Builders Vs. Breakers

Presented at AppSec USA 2012, Oct. 26, 2012, 1 p.m. (45 minutes)

Builders vs. Breakers is a fast paced highly interactive game show debate style talk. Each topic starts with a short introduction pitting the Builder vs. the Breaker. It is then opened up for audience participation. After taking views from the audience, the audience votes on a winner. Whichever side wins the debate is rewarded and the contest moves on to the next topic. Our builder is a veteran software developer building security tools for developers. Our breaker is a seasoned pen tester with product management and research experience. Our game show host keeps the discussion moving smoothly ... and has been known to occasionally express the business perspective. Questions for debate will be posted/gathered on google docs for preview and participation. Building on our fun experiences at DC20 SkyTalks and BSidesChicago 2011/2012 this talk is aimed at getting the audience involved and ultimately thinking about contributing to the broader community.

Presenters:

  • Brett Hardin - CEO - SourceNinja
    Brett Hardin is a developer, author, advisor, and speaker on information security and entrepreneurship. Brett began programming at the age of 8 and began his professional career getting paid to find and exploit vulnerabilities within Fortune 500 organizations. Brett has been focused on helping developers secure code. Brett also co-authored the book Hacking: The Next Generation.
  • Jon Rose - Agile Security - Dun & Bradstreet
    Jon has a unique combination of an innovative entrepreneur with the proven ability to lead Fortune 500 companies. With over 16 years of experience launching products, securing environments, training and educating technology teams, and building agile security organizations, Jon has a deep and wide understanding of organizational capabilities for both start-ups and large scale organizations.
  • Matt Konda - Founder - Jemurai
    Matt Konda is a developer and application security expert. He founded Jemurai to focus on working with teams to deliver secure software. Jemurai works with clients on security automation, training, strategy, building AppSec teams and more. Matt is on the global board of OWASP, active in developer and devops focused OWASP open source projects and regularly gives industry talks.

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