Most security teams don’t want to slow down or delay engineering or innovation, but the nature of the job can sometimes make this inevitable. Zate Berg, senior manager of security for Indeed.com, was able to avoid his team becoming a bottleneck in their software engineering team’s high-velocity process. How did he do it? In our brand-new episode of our podcast, Security Nation, Zate explains his challenges and successes in building an application security program for Indeed.com, and six takeaways every company can leverage to accomplish what Zate has done.
Zate’s journey from remote farm to infosec leader
Zate grew up on a million-acre farm (yes, million!) in Australia that was so isolated that he attended school every day over the radio and roamed the outback in his spare time. In his teenage years, he moved to the city, discovered technology, and instantly fell in love with it. He’s spent 20 years as a technology professional, 15 of which have been in security. Along the way, he was hired at Rapid7, and he later went on to become the head of the information security team at Indeed.com.
A large technology company, Indeed.com’s software engineering team moves fast. Their goal is to iterate and try new things to continuously deliver value to customers. This means the security team can’t get in the way of speed and progress, which put Zate on a mission to build security into the engineering process. With thousands of sub-products and developers doing hundreds of production deploys a week, this was a feat full of challenges.
Building an integrated application security pipeline
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