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Tom’s Tech Notes: AppSec and Threat Intelligence Visibility

It was great speaking with Surag Patel, Chief Strategy Officer at Contrast Security during PagerDuty Summit 2019 where we were on a DevSecOps panel together.

Contrast Security has joined the PagerDuty Integration Partnership Program to help identify and resolve cybersecurity threats and attacks for distributed DevSecOps teams. By embedding vulnerability analysis and exploit prevention directly into modern software, customers are able to achieve an improved security posture across their mission-critical functions.

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Attacks, Vulnerabilities, and Tools: The Fate of DevSecOps

"Only with the introduction of trucks and tanks in World War I did horses finally become supplanted as the main assault vehicle and means of fast transport in war. Arabian and Bactrian camels played a similar military role within their geographic range," shared Jared Diamond, in his seminal 1997 book entitled Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In all these examples, people with domestic horses or camels (later with trucks and tanks), or with improved means of using them, enjoyed an enormous military advantage over those without them.

Throughout all of history, elite societies have both been formed and crushed through the advent of new technologies or the availability of better resources to them. The have's have outpaced the have nots. The better equipped prospered and those without, languished.