The State of the Security Industry in 2023: Round Table

This month, the OWASP NoVA team is hosting a group of leading security professionals to discuss the latest challenges we are all facing.

Bring your best and most challenging questions and join us for a mid-year roundup with Abdullah Munawar, Sean Poris, and Rich Wickersham.

Bios:
Abdullah Munawar is currently the Director of Product Security at Appian and has previously been a consultant for a number of years helping various federal and financial clients build and mature security programs. He has been running the Northern Virginia Chapter of OWASP for the past 8 years and was also one of the lead organizers for AppSec USA 2016 and Global AppSec DC in 2019.

Rich Wickersham is a highly experienced Cyber Security expert, researcher and executive with over two decades of experience in defining and guiding cybersecurity vision, strategy, and execution for major organizations in the public and private sectors. Wickersham is currently the Chief Security Architect for Voya Financial and has previous security leadership experience with AIG, Fannie Mae, The United States House of Representatives, and The Department of Homeland Security. Rich is a recognized researcher with past speaking engagements at CSA, DEFCON, Voice of America and BSIDES.

Sean Poris
Sean Poris leads the Cyber Resilience pillar inside Yahoo's information security organization, affectionately dubbed "The Paranoids."
He's passionate about providing the bedrock of security solutions that ensure the protection of the company's critical consumer and company data that nearly one billion people around the world entrust to Yahoo.
Sean's team — which includes Vulnerability Management Operations and Engineering; Product Security; Cloud Security; and Bug Bounty, among half a dozen other functions — builds solutions that drive the delivery of resilient products and infrastructure.
Prior to Yahoo, Sean was the Senior Director of Software Security at The College Board, which enables students in their collegiate journeys throughout the world.
There, his team equipped software development groups with the critical training, tools, and processes needed to address information security holistically throughout the development lifecycle.
Sean currently serves on the Board of the Northern Virginia Chapter of OWASP. And in that capacity, he worked as the 2019 Global OWASP AppSec DC conference's co-chair.