Put your robots to work: security automation at Twitter

Presented at AppSec USA 2012, Oct. 25, 2012, 2 p.m. (45 minutes).

With daily code releases and a growing infrastructure, manually reviewing code changes and protecting against security regressions quickly becomes impractical. Even when using security tools, whether commercial or open source, the difficult work of integrating them into the development and security cycles remains. We need to use an automated approach to push these tools as close to when the code is written as possible, allowing us to prevent potential vulnerabilities before they are shipped. We worked with development, operations, and release teams to create a targeted suite of tools focused on specific security concerns that are effective and don't introduce any noise. This presentation will give an overview of what we've done over the past year, what we have learned along the way, and will provide advice for anyone else going down this road.


Presenters:

  • Neil Matatall - Information Security Engineer - Twitter
    Twitter security engineer, football fan, hiker. I like writing code. I like breaking code. I like protecting code.
  • Justin Collins - Security Engineer - Twitter
    Justin is a security engineer at Twitter and a long-time computer science PhD student at UCLA. He spends most of his time working on Brakeman, a static analysis security scanner for Ruby on Rails.
  • Alex Smolen - Security Engineer - Twitter
    Security Engineer at Twitter. Graduate of the UC Berkely I School. Previously at Foundstone. Interested in security and the human experience.

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