Dustin Lehr -- Advocating and being on the side of developers

Before taking the plunge into information security leadership, Dustin Lehr spent over a decade as a software engineer and architect in a variety of industries, including retail, DoD, and even video games. This diverse background has helped him forge close partnerships with development teams, engineering leaders, and software security advocates while pursuing the organizational culture shift of building good security habits into daily work. Dustin joins us to talk about the challenges developers face with security and so much more. We hope you enjoy this conversation with... This diverse background helped him forge close partnerships with development teams, engineering leaders, and software security advocates while pursuing the organizational culture shift of building good security habits into daily work.

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Before taking the plunge into information security leadership, Dustin Lehr spent over a decade as a software engineer and architect in a variety of industries, including retail, DoD, and even video games.
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→ OWASP
→ Alyssa Miller

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→ Alyssa Miller
→ Aaron Rinehart (opensource.com)

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Chapters:
00:00 Meet Dustin Lehr: Advocating and being on the side of developers
01:49 Yeah, and specifically Engaging the mind of the developer. I just
04:03 Architect, what— I'm curious now, what from an architecture perspective, like
06:54 Many questions come out of just what you said there. When
09:13 Actually, I want to make a statement. I can definitely identify
12:59 Some more about developers, but I want to ask a follow-up
14:55 Okay. So I'm going to offer kind of another opinion about
18:16 Totally agree that we don't want to put up any barriers
20:50 Because nobody knows. I mean, I've been in the security business
24:37 Yeah. I mean, imagine a day where we worked ourselves out
27:04 Yeah, I was doing an interview for the episode right before
31:05 A couple of things that I can think of that I've
34:19 I plead the Fifth, right, to not incriminate myself in a