One year ago, I decided to start my own company, and it is called We Hack Purple.

When I decided to start this company, I wasn’t actually 100% sure what I wanted to do. I had found myself suddenly unemployed, because my previous startup had failed. Unsure of my next steps, I did what any Internet nerd would do, I posted on Twitter that I didn’t know what I wanted to do with myself and asked if anyone wanted to make suggestions. Person, after person, after person asked me to start a training company. Several…

I joined the NeuraLegion Advisory Board because they’re really fun to work with. Gosh that would make for a short blog post, wouldn’t it?

When I started my quickly-failed startup in 2019, Security Sidekick, Bar Hofesh reached out to me to see if he and Gadi Bashvitz could help. I was pleasantly surprised to have several people in my industry reach out to me, and even other small companies reaching out to see how they could help me with my startup. InfoSec is full of kind and generous people, let me tell you.

When I left Microsoft, I had committed…

In this series we are discussing how to get your technical training approved at work. This is not the first article, and you may want to go back and read it from the start.

In the previous article, we talked about how we need to explain to our boss not only which training we want, but we must overcome any objections, if we are going to get it approved. Let’s look at the second objection in our list.

Back in the day I requested approval to take a web-app hacking course, and I recall my boss saying, “You don’t need…

*This is a series.*

We’ve all been there. There’s a training you really want to take, but your boss isn’t so sure. This can be because it’s out of budget, they feel it’s too ‘off topic’ from your current job, there’s no time with your current workload, they are afraid they will lose you if you have new skills, or some other reason they won’t tell you. Let’s go through all of these reasons and figure out how YOU can get you’re training approved.

Note: I run my own training company, We Hack Purple, that specializes in Application Security, Secure…

Welcome to the Black Lives Matter Edition of Book Club, where we will talk about a couple of books that Tanya read recently, and what she thinks about them. The previous article in this series was about Communication and Metrics.

All of the books listed are available in audiobook; my preferred reading format.

We are covering this topic for several reasons, but the one that makes it relevant to this membership is that when Tanya, the founder of this company, used her social media accounts to share her support for those fighting oppression and system violence and racism in America…

The Second Way of DevOps is fast feedback. In security, when we see this we should all be thinking the same thing: Pushing Left. We want to start security at the beginning of the system development life cycle (SDLC) and ensure we are there (providing feedback) the whole way through!

The previous post in this series is here.

Fast feedback loops means getting important information to the right people, quickly and regularly. …

The previous article in this series is here. If you are lost reading this article, read the whole series from the start. :-D This is a long post, sit tight!

The first “Way” of DevOps is emphasizing the efficiency of the entire system. Many of us tend to focus only on our part of a giant system, and get bogged down improving only our own contributions to the larger process. It’s rare that we stand back, look at the entire thing, and realize that if we helped another team or if changed something small within our part, that it could…

The previous article in this series is here.

In this post we will explore The 3 Ways of DevOps. But first, a definition.

DevSecOps is Application Security, adjusted for a DevOps environment.

-Imran A Mohammed

DevSecOps is the security activities that application security professionals perform, in order to ensure the systems created by DevOps practices are secure. It’s the same thing we (AppSec professionals) have always done, with a new twist. Thanks Imran!

Refresher on The Three Ways:

1. Emphasize the efficiency of the entire system, not just your part.
2. Fast feedback loops.
3. Continuous learning, risk taking and experimentation (failing fast)

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