Vendor Security: Where Our Data Goes We Follow

Presented at BSidesSF 2019, March 4, 2019, 2:50 p.m. (30 minutes)

Every company big and small partners with external vendors for services. Examples can range from architects, caterers, painters, and law firms to content distribution, hosting, marketing insights, email, machine learning, and contingent labor. The exodus of information to these vendors and the need for their integration with internal resources can pose unique security challenges. In the age of daily breaches, how can you verify and improve the security of your vendors? This panel will seek to explore diverse experiences and opinions on vendor security from companies both large and small. Topics of discussion will include varied methods for performing vendor security, approaches to influencing vendors, the value of investment in vendor security versus other security functions and priorities, scaling a vendor security program, and the ultimate question: can you really predict the security maturity and likelihood of a breach in another company?

Presenters:

  • Wendy Zenone
  • Kyle Tobener - Salesforce
    Kyle Tobener is a Director of Enterprise Security at Salesforce. He began his professional career as a zoologist but fled the jungle to return to San Francisco and focus on tech. His specialty now is application security, with a side dish of 3rd party vetting and contract negotiation. In his free time he collects cyberpunk paintings, runs the largest board game Meetup in San Francisco, and teaches his daughter to break things. Also Niall is clearly the best member of One Direction.
  • Niru Ragupathy - Google
    Niru is a security engineer at Google. She works on the assessments team, where she performs code reviews, design reviews and red teaming. She has run web application security workshops at BsidesSF, WiCys and Blackhoodie. In her free time she doodles corgis and writes mobile application challenges.
  • Vivienne Pustell
  • Rachel Black - One Medical
    Rachel Black is a Senior Manager of Application Security at One Medical focusing on product security, vendor security, and a little of everything else. In her free time she snuggles with her Corgi, plays Stardew Valley on the Switch, and religiously uses Yelp to decide where to eat!
  • Justin Calmus - OneLogin
    Justin is the chief security officer of OneLogin responsible for architecting and leading risk management, security, and compliance efforts.  Justin is an information security leader, researcher, and hacker-turned chief security officer who previously served as the chief information officer and the chief security officer at Zenefits.  Before that, Justin held various leadership positions at HackerOne, the leading bug bounty program, Salesforce, and LinkedIn.  A hacker himself, Justin regularly participates in bug bounty programs and drives initiatives to foster the global hacker community.

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