Kevin Johnson -- Samurai Swords and Zap's Departure

Kevin Johnson is the CEO of Secure Ideas. He began his career as a developer but turned toward security when he discovered that the interface for an intrusion detection system, Snort, was out of date. This led him to create BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), a testament to Kevin's proactive approach. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for Fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time, he contributes to many open source security projects. Kevin joins us to explain OWASP SamuraiWTF and how developers can successfully learn about AppSec and use AppSec web app pentest tools.

Connect with Kevin Johnson:
→ Secure Ideas
→ SamuraiWTF

Mentioned in this episode:
→ Secure Ideas
→ SamuraiWTF
→ OWASP ZAP
→ Mark Curphey
→ OWASP Top Ten
→ SANS Institute
→ SANS SEC542
→ RSA Conference
→ Black Hat
→ B-Sides
→ Kali Linux
→ Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA)

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Chapters:
00:00 Meet Kevin Johnson: Samurai Swords and Zap's Departure
03:33 All right. We should probably talk about, uh, Kevin's security origin
13:14 Very cool. So you mentioned, uh, about, uh, open source projects
23:11 Let's, talk a little bit about, uh, SamuraiWTF a little bit
31:02 Many paid members
34:00 What, but what there, there's, there's not a clear value proposition
39:25 I mean, he had, he had, I mean, when we did
45:29 All right. Well, we can skip Robert, I think, right to
48:03 That's good. I get it. I get, I get what you're
49:33 Let's, um, let's go, let's, let's give you a chance here