Erez Yalon – AppSec Village – 5 Minute AppSec

Why did DEF CON have villages for specialized security communities but no home dedicated to application security? Erez Yalon explains how that recurring question became AppSec Village. After several years of waiting for someone else to create it, he decided to act and invited Liora Herman, whose strength with operational details complemented his idea, to join the volunteer effort. Their partnership turned a missing conference space into a focused community for application security practitioners, researchers, and builders. This brief origin story captures a useful lesson about security communities: when an important forum does not exist, committed volunteers can stop asking why and build the place they want to attend.

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Chapters:
00:00 Why create an AppSec Village?
00:20 The missing village at DEF CON
00:41 Turning the idea into a volunteer project
01:17 Continue with the full AppSec Village interview