Sources and Sinks

In this episode of "Sources and Sinks, a conversation with ShiftLeft's lead security researcher - Niko Schmidt. Niko opens up on his process, what he sees as the key threats and how developers can improve their game to build more secure applications

As a fun addition, he tracks his journey as a security research prior to ShiftLeft and narrates serious yet amusing incidents of corporate security assessments.

In this podcast, I talk about the lack of representation of Indian and Chinese cuisines from Michelin rating system. I examine the question if Michelin is irrelevant for Indian and Chinese cuisine in general and Indian cuisine specifically.

I talk about the notion of high culture and its role in propelling french cuisine as the ultimate arbiter of fine dining and whether that Asian cuisine requires a new standard.

Julie Tsai in a conversation with Alok Shukla on her initiative for #ShiftLeft at Roblox. Julie is the Head of Information Security at Roblox - a wildly successful online gaming company.

Julie talks about the practice of Shifting Left, centrality of empowering developers through code analysis, interactions between red/blue teams and as a bonus - security leaders she admires and could be role models to increase diversity in cybersecurity.

This episode is in continuation of ongoing conversation of empowering developers by shiftling security left.

A conversation with Toufiq Ali - Principal Engineer, Cybersecurity operations at Emirates Group on developer focused security initiatives..

Toufiq delves into the need of integrating security into development pipelines, how security and software development teams created this partnership, and how ShiftLeft Inspect has helped them achieve their goals.

This conversation is hosted by Alok Shukla, VP of product management at ShiftLeft.

In the world of product definition and design, as practitioners, we have always experienced such moments where we had all the data but we relied on our gut to make a call, and then we tasted success.

I discuss this phenomenon with two of my guests - Prabhu Subramaniam, Lead Architect at ShiftLeft and Dharmesh Gandhi, SVP of Products at Rentomojo (formerly at Amazon and Uber).

Prabhu discussed his Aha moment during his work on ShiftLeft Scan, Dharmesh during his work on advertising product at Amazon and Alok during his work on Attack Analytics during his tenure at Imperva. 

There are many veterans of 2007-2009 market crash who are now using those learnings to navigate 2020 downturn.

Mark Kraynak was leading marketing in 2008 at Imperva and he saw Imperva navigating it's way out of a crash, albeit successfully. Now in his avatar as founding VC at Acrew Capital, a venture capital firm out of Palo Alto and San Francisco, he talks about how StartUps can navigate 2020. As a bonus, Mark talks about the type of ideas he might invest in.

Mark talks about personal journey, lifelong learnings from 2008 crash and how it shapes his view in 2020, in a free flowing conversation with Alok Shukla (VP of Products at ShiftLeft)

A lot has been discussed about economy, remote work, startups, technology and what not of these COVID times,In this episode of Sources and Sinks, we will discuss a peculiarity of silicon valley lifestyle -  Coffee and Tea. 

To discuss that, I have invited two special guests - A Coffee snob and A Tea Snob.

Manish Gupta, CEO of ShiftLeft is our Coffee Snob and We have Arun Balakrishnan, Director of Products at ShiftLeft is our Tea Snob.

In this episode, I attempt to learn from their knowledge of Coffee and Tea and may be become a minor enthusiast of my own.

In coversation with Shannon Lietz, Director of Adversary management at Intuit Inc. We talk about Securibility and its increasing centrality to developer led application security programs.

We chat about two main pillars of securibility - exploitability and threat analysis with respect to an application. Shannon describes how a securibility metrics can help development teams achieve success for the goal of creating security software.

Alok Shukla, VP of Products at Shiftleft, anchors this conversation from the eyes of a real life security practioner and as a host of this podcast.

A conversation with ShiftLeft CTO and co-founder Chetan Conikee about ShiftLeft and remote working. As Chetan describes, remote working was a default way of work for ShiftLeft since its inception and it is not relying on its learnt experience to cope up mandatory home work culture. 

Alok, VP of products at ShiftLeft talks about how he is engaging with enterprise customers while being remote.