In episode 76 of the We Hack Purple Podcast host Tanya Janca brings Anshu Bansal, the CEO of CloudDefense.ai, back onto the show for a second time to discuss “solving problems in application security”. Tanya and Anshu have worked together quite a while, as Tanya has been an advisor at Cloud Defense since it was a drawing on the back of a napkin!

We choose this topic because Anshu recently spoke at the OWASP Bay Area meetup chapter, and he told Tanya his talk was about "solving the AppSec problems”. Obviously, she had to hear more about this. They dove into Anshu’s definition of false positives (the traditional meaning, plus legit vulnerabilities that aren’t reachable or otherwise do not cause business risk), as well as how to prioritize issues in way that makes more sense for the business. He simplified a lot of ideas that sometimes technical folks struggle with, such as how to get your message across to the business so that they agree to fix what matters most.

More Anshu!

• Anshu generously offered to connect with any of our listeners on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshubansal/
• He’s part of the Cloud Defense blog https://www.clouddefense.ai/blog
• They also have a Newsletter https://www.clouddefense.ai/contact

Very special thanks to our sponsor: Semgrep!

Semgrep Supply Chain’s reachability analysis lets you ignore the 98% of false positives in open source vulnerabilities and quickly find and fix the 2% of issues that are actually reachable. 

Get Your Free Trial Here! 

Semgrep also makes a ludicrously fast static analysis tool They have a free and paid version of this tool, which uses an open-source engine, and offers a community-created rule set! Check out Semgrep Code HERE


Join We Hack Purple!

Check out our brand new courses in We Hack Purple Academy. Join us in the We Hack Purple Community: A fun and safe place to learn and share your knowledge with other professionals in the field. Subscribe to our newsletter for even more free knowledge! You can find us, in audio format, on Podcast Addict, Apple Podcast, Overcast, Pod, Amazon Music, Spotify, and more!