Irfaan Santoe is the leader of the OWASP Netherlands chapter and the creator of the OWASP Security Champions Guide. He is passionate about scaling security in AppDev, DevOps, and Cloud and has helped numerous multinationals solve information security challenges. 

In this episode of The Security Champions Podcast, Irfaan walks through the Security Champion Program Guide. He shares the motivation behind the project, what makes this guide different, how security champions can affect real change, and more! 

[0:05 ] Welcome to The Security Champions Podcast 
[14:13 ] The Motivation Behind the OWASP Security Champions Guide 
[18:02 ] How To Get Buy-In for a New OWASP Project 
[21:28 ] Why the Champions Guide is Different
[28:26 ] How To Make Everyone a Security Champion
[32:49 ] Engineers are Part of the Security Team  
[37:52 ] Facilitating Behavioral Change
[41:02 ] How Security Champions Bring the Community Together

Episode Resources:

• OWASP Security Champions Guide - https://owasp.org/www-project-security-champions-guidebook/

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