Building an AppSec Pipeline: Keeping your program, and your life, sane

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Are you currently running at AppSec program? AppSec programs fall into a odd middle ground; highly technical interactions with the dev and ops teams yet a practical business focus is required as you go up the org chart. How can you keep your far too small team efficient while making sure you meet the needs of the business all while making sure you’re catching vulnerabilities as early and often as possible? The AppSec team and the business created an AppSec Pipeline to handle the work flow. The pipeline starts with “Bag of Holding”, an open source web application which helps automate and streamline the activities of your AppSec team. At the end of the pipeline is ThreadFix to manage all the findings from all the sources. Finally we incorporated a chatbot to tie all the information into one place.

Aaron Weaver
Application Security Manager, Pearson plc
Building an AppSec Pipeline:
Keeping your program, and
your life, sane

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What does BoH do?
• Manages our Application Security Program
• Application Repository
• Engagement Tracking
• Report Repository
• Comments on any application, engagement or activity
• Data Classification and PII data
• Time taken on secure software activities
• Historical knowledge of past assessments
• Credential repository
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