Ep 30 - ProdSec Buys the Tools, Vendors Cash the Checks, Coffee Fuels the Rage

🎙️ Coffee, Chaos and ProdSec, Ep 30

Your security stack has too many tools. Your vendors swear everything works. And somehow nothing actually does.

This week Cameron and Kurt get into the vendor fatigue problem that most ProdSec and Application Security teams are living with but nobody wants to say out loud. Overlapping tools, compounding pricing, AI addons bolted on at renewal, and alert noise so bad that engineers have quietly stopped reading findings entirely.

From the build vs. buy math nobody does honestly, to the red flags that predict vendor failure before it gets expensive, to whether AI tooling has finally shifted the DIY case enough to make it worth the risk, this episode covers the full stack of frustration with real talk and zero vendor sympathy.

If you work in Product Security, DevSecOps, or Cybersecurity and you have ever renewed a contract because nobody had time to fight it, this one will feel uncomfortably familiar.

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