Changing Culture With Nitzan Blouin
In episode 71 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Nitzan Blouin, an Information Security Manager at Spotify, whose background combines engineering and product management. She built six QA test departments from scratch while bulletproofing big data with and mobile products. Nowadays, she’s leading Spotify’s product security team. In this episode, Nitzan digs into changing culture, something that she has managed a couple of times before in a variety of contexts.
Episode 71 of the The Secure Developer podcast, hosted by Guy Podjarny, Nitzan Blouin, titled "Changing Culture With Nitzan Blouin" was published on July 30, 2020 and runs 32 minutes.
July 30, 2020 ·32m · The Secure Developer
Summary
In episode 71 of The Secure Developer, Guy Podjarny talks to Nitzan Blouin, an Information Security Manager at Spotify, whose background combines engineering and product management. She built six QA test departments from scratch while bulletproofing big data with and mobile products. Nowadays, she’s leading Spotify’s product security team. In this episode, Nitzan digs into changing culture, something that she has managed a couple of times before in a variety of contexts.
Episode Description
On today’s episode, Guy Podjarny, President and Co-Founder of Snyk talks to Nitzan Blouin. Nitzan’s background combines engineering and product management. She built six QA test departments from scratch while bulletproofing big data with mobile products. Nowadays, she’s leading Spotify’s product security team. In this episode, Nitzan digs into changing culture, something that she has managed a couple of times before in a variety of contexts. She shares a bit about her journey from quality assurance to security and how they are essentially two sides of the same coin. We get a step-by-step process from Nitzan, about how she sought to create a plan that would solve security as an engineering problem at Spotify. She also has some tips about interaction models, hiring a diverse team, and talking to your customers. Tune in today for more on changing culture, from Nitzan Blouin!
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