Application Security with Cybersecurity Author Ted Harrington
Jim and Dave speak with Ted Harrington who argues that companies need to take a similar approach to secure their systems. He explains how important it is to think outside the box and be willing to push boundaries in potentially troublesome ways, whether the subject is application security or something else entirely.
Ted Harrington is the author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right, and the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the company of ethical hackers famous for being the first to hack the iPhone.\xa0He\u2019s overseen security research hacking medical devices, password managers, and cryptocurrency wallets.\xa0Ted has helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Disney, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Adobe, Warner Brothers, Qualcomm, and more.\xa0For his stewardship of security research that Wired Magazine says \u201cwins the prize, hands down,\u201d Ted has been named both Executive of the Year [by American Business Awards] and 40 Under 40 [by SD Metro].\xa0\xa0
He leads a team that started and organizes IoT Village, an event whose hacking contest is a three-time DEFCON Black Badge winner, and which represents the discovery of more than 300 zero-day vulnerabilities (and counting). Ted\u2018s work has been featured in more than 100 media outlets, including The New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today. Ted is a Boston Marathon finisher, and holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree from Georgetown University, where he started his first company while a student.
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