Organisation, who wants to set up an AppSec program from scratch using open source tools especially the start ups. They need a security program which they can pickup and get started with their application. For Enterprises, they can leverage the open source projects to set up the proof of concept and go for the private or commercial tools.
OWASP has many projects which can be tied seamlessly into the application development pipeline structure. However, firstly we don’t know if the projects exist, second if we know about the projects, we do not know the exact working of the projects.
Here is the AppSec Framework which I have created and which might help you in setting up the program or picking up the open source tools.
Takeaways:
Vandana is a member of the Black Hat Asia Review Board as well as multiple other conferences including Grace Hopper India, OWASP AppSec USA to name a few. She is also one of the organiser of BSides Delhi.
She has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards like Cyber Security Woman of the Year Award 2020 by Cyber Sec Awards, Application Security Influencer 2020 by Whitesource, Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global’s “Top Influencers inSecurity and Fire” Category for 2019, Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category “Secure Coder”. She has also been listed as one of the top women leaders in this field of technology and cybersecurity in India by Instasafe. She has trained over 10000+ Diverse candidates in cybersecurity.
