For better adoption, build security into your engineer's workflow

In this episode, Zeeshan Khadim, Head of Security at Panther Labs, discusses how to improve security adoption by building security into an engineer's workflow.

Key Takeaways:

• Security and privacy are part of the core product, not an overhead
• Security implications from the design phase
• Empower users to start with security in mind
• Make sure you triage before involving other teams
• Understand what the “Crown Jewels” are to put things in perspective
• Treat the root cause and not the symptom
• Instead of alerting in production, leverage the tools to warn for issues sooner
• When it comes to tooling, ask what capabilities the team is missing
• Moving away from plug and play
• Managing your resources
• Pushing work left is too easy…don’t
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• About today’s guest: 

Zeeshan Khadim is the Head of Security at Panther Labs. With over 13 years of professional experience, Zeeshan has worked with global companies, including his last roles as the Security Engineering Manager at Facebook HQ and Senior Security Engineer at Google HQ. Zeeshan did his Bachelor's in Computer Systems from GIKI, Pakistan, and Masters in Computers & Information Sciences from the University of Delaware.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeeshanalikhadim/

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