Australia's Cybersecurity Evolution: A Veteran's Perspective with Paul McCarty

SummaryPaul McCarty is CEO and founder of SecureStack, a DevSecOps visibility & automation company, and GitLab's Red Team leader. Paul's been involved in software security in Australia for decades. In his conversation with Cole Cornford, Paul discusses how Australia's software security industry has changed since the early 2000's, whether security professionals aught to know how to code, and plenty more. Timestamps2:50 - Paul's career background7:00 - Spicy take: people on LinkedIn are too blindly positive10:00 - Understanding what went wrong when there's a breach13:00 - Cole doesn't think "zero trust" is feasible14:10 - Cole: maturity of cybersecurity in Aus is weak generally16:00 - Cole hires for dev experience, not sec ops, because dev is harder to teach18:30 - Aus market different to US, which has lots of software companies21:50 - Paul: we've devalued the importance of operations22:20 - The "holy trinity" of offensive security26:30 - What percentage of ASX companies have a bug bounty program?28:50 - Cole's free pizza exploit31:00 - Got to be in security for the long haul31:40 - The book that changed Paul's lifeMentioned in this episode:Call for FeedbackThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrpSpotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/