Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown talks cybersecurity with Dotan Nahum, CEO and Co-founder of Spectral. Dotan provides us with a high-level overview of the role of cybersecurity, its definition, evolution, and current challenges. He also shares tips for small- and medium-sized ventures on how to develop best practices.The episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:01:12 Evolution of modern cybersecurity 00:06:06 When to integrate security in a design00:11:54 Shadow IT00:13:50 Hacker motives and motivations; SQL Injection explained00:16:48 Firewalls and WAFs00:20:29 Cybersecurity for small- and medium-sized companies 00:23:52 “The last mile of developers”00:26:47 dotfiles00:32:23 Simple tools and good practices00:40:42 Attack vectors, attack factors00:44:16 Ransomware and phishing00:48:19 Unsafe languages00:50:02 Fuzzing00:54:11 Rust programming language00:55:54 Example security scenario with IntelliJ00:59:42 More about Spectral, Dotan’s company01:03:40 Staying virtual using DiscordTranscript:Episode 110 Com