Kevin Johnson Interview parts 1 and 2

It's been almost 3 months since we had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Johnson, CEO of SecureIdeas. We haven't conducted a ton of interviews, but it was very interesting to get his perspective on security, and being in his SEC542 class was a great experience.

He has since quit teaching for SANS, but he is still doing training at other conventions now, many of those classes involve the newest versions of SamuraiWTF and Burp CO2, the new add-on for Burp.

He has another class he is teaching with James Jardine in Orlando July 14th-17th, 2014. More Info Here

If you are in Orlando, you should take this course. Much cheaper than you'd probably get at SANS, and probably just as instructive.

If you'd like to hear our two part interview we did with Kevin Johnson, you can find them below

Part 1 Part 2

Have a great holiday weekend, and if you find yourself without anything to do, feel free to grab our other podcasts and have a listen!

Episode 5: Interview with Frank Kim

Man, it was a great week. If you ever have the chance to go to a SANS Course, do it, and do it often. It may be expensive, but the networking opportunities are great, and the instructors are just good people.

During the "Capture the Flag", which I will not give out information about (so don't ask), I felt utterly useless. I had done all that I felt I could do, but it's amazing that you can take experiences from your own work and apply it to issues. Once we'd gotten in, I remembered something about a security issue at our office, and in doing so, I found a flag! I went from thinking I was a failure to being a hero of our team. What we didn't know was that another team had found all the flags, but because of a configuration issue on their browser, they missed a flag they'd discovered. If they'd not done that, they would have won.

But because of that mistake, our team capitalized on the the CTF, and won first place!

Mr. Boettcher and I had a blast over the week, networking with various people and instructors, meeting a tons of great people, hearing Robert 'RSnake' Hansen speaking at the SANS Summit, and just getting some really excellent training on tools like Burp, SamuraiWTF, Sqlmap, and others.

We also got several interviews in the can. Episode 5 is with Frank Kim, an Instructor with SANS, who was teaching the Secure Java coding class. We got him to sit down with us and discuss some of the issues dealing with the culture of secure coding

Have a listen: Frank Kim Interview