Australia's Cybersecurity Evolution: A Veteran's Perspective with Paul McCarty
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Summary
Paul McCarty is CEO and founder of SecureStack, a DevSecOps visibility & automation company, and GitLab's Red Team leader. Paul's been involved in software security in Australia for decades. In his conversation with Cole Cornford, Paul discusses how Australia's software security industry has changed since the early 2000's, whether security professionals aught to know how to code, and plenty more.
Timestamps
2:50 - Paul's career background
7:00 - Spicy take: people on LinkedIn are too blindly positive
10:00 - Understanding what went wrong when there's a breach
13:00 - Cole doesn't think "zero trust" is feasible
14:10 - Cole: maturity of cybersecurity in Aus is weak generally
16:00 - Cole hires for dev experience, not sec ops, because dev is harder to teach
18:30 - Aus market different to US, which has lots of software companies
21:50 - Paul: we've devalued the importance of operations
22:20 - The "holy trinity" of offensive security
26:30 - What percentage of ASX companies have a bug bounty program?
28:50 - Cole's free pizza exploit
31:00 - Got to be in security for the long haul
31:40 - The book that changed Paul's life
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