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Risk Is Not a Hammer, and Most Hazards Aren't NailsUSENIX Security '252025-08-13
Claim: quantifying cyber risk usually fails to guide decisions because necessary iteration and causal links are missing. Evidence: a production auto run fix…
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Keynote: 25 Years in AppSec: Looking Back, Looking ForwardGlobal AppSec US 2021 Virtual2021-11-08
Claims 25 years of firsthand AppSec practice including released internal security guidelines (1996) and later work on Microsoft SDL and ship delays show…
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Using Threat Modeling to Improve ComplianceRSAC 20212021-05-17
Claim: mapping PCI line items to explicit threats reveals PCI emphasizes process and management threats (outdated firewall rules, retained auth data, missing…
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The B-MAD Approach to Threat ModelingBlack Hat Asia 20212021-05-04
Argues that the common instruction bring me a diagram creates needless conflict and late-stage fixes by turning a collaborative design step into a blame-driven…
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Reverse Engineering ComplianceBlack Hat Asia 20212021-05-04
Applies classic reverse engineering (GDB and assembler dumps from past work) to the PCI DSS v3.2.1 rulebook, mapping its 139 pages of requirements into a…
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Threat Modeling PanelOWASP AppSec California 20182018-01-30
Panel argues threat modeling succeeds when it’s modular, iterative and owned by the team, not a one-off review. Practical takeaways: use connection flow…
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