The Application Security Podcast
The Application Security Podcast is a practitioner-led show for anyone building or securing modern software—and now AI-powered applications. Hosts Chris Romeo and Robert Hurlbut talk with the people shaping application security about AI and LLM security, threat modeling, secure development, OWASP, cloud, DevSecOps, security champions, and building programs that help engineering teams move faster and safer. With more than 300 episodes, the show turns real-world experience into practical guidance for developers, architects, AppSec professionals, and security leaders.
The Application Security Podcast
Elie Saad — OWASP WSTG, Cheat Sheets, and Integration
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Elie Saad is an application security engineer, leading three different OWASP projects. He focuses on helping developers own and champion security in their projects by providing guidance, tests, secure pipeline design and aiding them in applying external security measures. Eli Saad is an application security engineer leading 3 different OWASP projects. In this conversation, Eli educates us about the current happenings with WSTG, which is the testing guide, the Cheat Sheet project, and the integration standard. And he walks us through demos of each of these projects. We hope you enjoy this conversation with Eli Saad. At Security Journey, we believe security is every developer's job.
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Eli Saad is an application security engineer leading 3 different OWASP projects.
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→ OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG)
→ OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
Mentioned in this episode:
→ OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG)
→ OWASP Cheat Sheet Series
→ OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS)
→ OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet
→ OWASP Proactive Controls
→ OWASP ZAP
→ Mobile Testing Guide
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00:00 Meet Elie Saad: Elie Saad — OWASP WSTG, Cheat Sheets, and Integration
02:15 Great. We'll have to do another episode where we profile and
07:25 That's exciting, the different projects. I mean, Robert and I are
09:59 Yeah, I mean, you're doing a lot in the world of
13:46 If I remember correctly, there are also some tie-ins from the
19:08 Yeah, that's great. And it just, it shows the depth. That's
25:38 It's such a hard thing to actually do. Like, I couldn't
27:27 You probably, same thing, Chris, you hear that often. What's the
29:16 Let's, let's go ahead and transition over to the integration standards
35:24 Yeah, it's great. It's a piece that's been missing is the
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