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Cyber Pulse Podcast: Secure Coding with Alice and Bob - featuring guest Tanya Janca

Thursday, January 23, 2025Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Our guest is Tanya Janca, best-selling author of Alice and Bob Learn Application Security, Head of Community and Education at Semgrep, and founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community, and podcast that revolved around teaching everyone to create secure software.

In this episode we talk about Tanya's new book Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding. This book covers multiple learning styles for every topic and can take you from Novice to Expert. Learn the top coding mistakes and how to avoid them, the importance of secure coding when cyber-crime is in the billions annually, some secure coding misconceptions, and why SOC and GRC need to understand secure coding. All of this brought to you with humor, insight, and real world examples in 10 coding languages and eight frameworks.

Learn more about the Alice and Bob Learn book series via the link below.
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In this episode's News Pulse, a new hacking group known as the "Belsen Group" has leaked data from over 15,000 FortiGate devices onto the dark web - including configuration files, IP addresses, digital certificates, and VPN credentials.

Topics discussed: Importance of Secure Coding, Polymorphism, Top Coding Mistakes, Secure Coding Misconceptions, SOC and GRC and Secure Coding

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