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Anyone working in Cybersecurity can tell you that there are endless fields of specialisation. For example, helping R&D through AppSec, hacking companies through red-teaming, or responding to incidents in a CyberSecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT). Regardless of speciality, there are skills you will have mastered, and ones you haven’t. In addition to the skills there are knowledge, ways of working etc. connected to each field. We as cybersecurity professionals need to be better at leveraging this diversity of skills and knowledge to our advantage....

Security Champions is a concept that gets more and more attraction. The function might go under another name, such as Security Masters, but the concepts are the same. In this post I will dig into what this role contains and how it can be applied to improve the security posture of an organisation. My experience with Security Champions is in Research and Development organisations, so my views are anchored in RnD....

A couple of weeks back I had a very interesting meeting at work. After meeting a new development team and discussing security (testing), they commented on how great it was to work with a driven and interested security engineer instead of a nay-sayer. This got me thinking about the overall view of security professionals from others, and realised that we are often seen as a hindrance. This line of thinking arose once more after reading the “Report on the 2020 FOSS Contributor Survey” [1]....