OWASP San Antonio: Supply Chain Security Summit

Supply Chain Security Summit: 11am-3:00pm
Happy Hour: 3:00pm-4:30pm

Join us for a deep dive into one of the most critical and rapidly evolving fronts in cybersecurity: supply chain security. From compromised vendors and poisoned dependencies to AI-enabled attack campaigns, today’s threat landscape is no longer isolated — it is interconnected, automated, and operating at unprecedented scale.
This summit brings together real-world threat intelligence, incident-driven insights, and practitioner-led discussions to examine how modern supply chain attacks actually unfold — and what it takes to defend against them. We will explore how adversaries are leveraging AI to accelerate reconnaissance, impersonate trusted entities, and exploit gaps across software, hardware, and third-party ecosystems.
Whether you're responsible for application security, third-party risk, detection engineering, or incident response, this session will provide actionable strategies to better understand, detect, and reduce supply chain exposure in an era of continuous, intelligent attack. (Virtual attendance is free. In-person attendance is $20 to help cover the cost of lunch.)

Featured Presentations

How to Engineer Supply Chain Controls - Tim Gowan, Success Architect (Endor Labs)
Modern software supply chains generate more findings than security and engineering teams can realistically address. As organizations scale, dependency sprawl, version fragmentation, and decentralized package management create hidden operational costs that make vulnerability remediation increasingly difficult.

This session explores practical approaches for engineering supply chain controls that improve both security outcomes and developer productivity. Attendees will learn how concepts such as version cardinality, controlled package ingestion, dependency standardization, and large-scale change management can help organizations reduce risk while accelerating remediation efforts.

Attendees will gain insights into:

• Understanding version cardinality and its impact on remediation cost and engineering velocity
• Reducing dependency sprawl through standardization and version-flattening strategies
• Implementing controlled package ingestion and software supply chain governance
• Building scalable controls that align security objectives with engineering workflows
• Leveraging supply chain visibility and dependency intelligence to prioritize risk more effectively

Threat-Informed Defense: Prioritizing What Actually Matters - J Fridley, Solutions Engineer (Oligo Security)
Security teams are inundated with alerts, vulnerabilities, and findings, yet many organizations still struggle to determine which risks truly matter. As software ecosystems become increasingly interconnected through open-source components, third-party services, cloud-native architectures, and AI-powered applications, defenders must move beyond vulnerability counts and focus on the techniques and attack paths adversaries are most likely to exploit.

This session explores how a threat-informed defense strategy can help organizations better understand real-world risk, prioritize remediation efforts, and focus security investments where they have the greatest impact. Attendees will learn practical approaches for aligning vulnerability management, application security, and threat intelligence programs to defend against modern attack techniques.

Topics include:

• Applying threat intelligence to prioritize vulnerabilities and security findings
• Identifying exploitable attack paths across applications and software supply chains
• Moving beyond CVE-centric security programs toward attacker-focused defenses
• Understanding risks introduced by third-party software, open-source dependencies, and AI-enabled applications
• Building a threat-informed security strategy that improves resilience and operational efficiency

The Supply Chain Threat We're Not Ready For: Where Are the Real Gaps? - Dima Gorbonos, Global Director of Sales Engineering (Mend.io)

Supply chain security has become a boardroom priority, yet many organizations continue to focus on the wrong risks. While visibility into software dependencies has improved, significant gaps remain across open-source ecosystems, transitive dependencies, third-party integrations, and emerging AI-driven development workflows.

This session explores where organizations are still vulnerable despite increased investment in supply chain security. Attendees will gain practical insights into the challenges of identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating risk across increasingly complex software delivery environments.

Topics include:

• The most overlooked supply chain security risks facing organizations today
• Hidden exposure within open-source and transitive dependencies
• Challenges introduced by AI-assisted software development
• Strategies for prioritizing and reducing software supply chain risk
• Practical recommendations for building a more resilient security program

The AI Attack Storm: Security at Machine Speed - Eric Pedersen, Solutions Engineer (Black Duck)
Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the economics of cyber attacks. While AI has not created entirely new attack techniques, it has dramatically reduced the cost, time, and expertise required to discover vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and scale attacks across software ecosystems. As attackers increasingly operate at machine speed, organizations must rethink how they approach application security, vulnerability management, and supply chain defense.

This session examines how AI is transforming both offensive and defensive security practices, the challenges facing traditional AppSec programs, and what organizations can do today to prepare for an era of AI-powered vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Attendees will learn practical strategies for building security programs capable of responding at the speed of modern threats.

What you'll learn:

• How AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and attack automation
• Why traditional vulnerability management and patching processes struggle to keep pace
• The evolving role of automated application security testing, software composition analysis, and supply chain security
• Key considerations for securing AI-assisted and agentic software development workflows
• Practical steps for building an AppSec program that can operate at machine speed

Security Panel Discussion: The Supply Chain Threat We’re Not Ready For
This panel brings together practitioners to discuss the most under-addressed risks in today’s supply chain landscape. From open source dependencies to AI model supply chains, panelists will explore where organizations remain vulnerable and what needs to change.

Discussion themes:

• Gaps in current supply chain security practices
• Accountability between vendors and customers
• Regulatory and governance challenges
• Emerging risks across AI and critical infrastructure dependencies

Facilitator: Joseph Gregorio, President OWASP San Antonio, VP Application Security Frost Bank

Additional Meeting Details
Lunch ($20 paid in person or via our Square account).
Square payment link:
https://square.link/u/W21TqLWD

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Disclaimer: You do not need to be a Meetup member to attend this event. In-person attendees may optionally purchase lunch through our Square payment link or pay at the event. Virtual attendance is completely free, and no payment is required through Meetup.
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Location: Scuzzi’s Italian Restaurant - 4035 N Loop 1604 W #102, San Antonio, TX 78257
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We encourage everyone to attend in person. We will have door prizes and excellent food for all to enjoy, along with a great opportunity to connect with fellow security professionals.

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