Prioritizing The Communication Factor In Security With Douglas DePerry

Today on The Secure Developer, we interview the Director of Product Security at Datadog,  Douglas DePerry. Doug has experience in the offense side of the industry, working as a security researcher and consultant at LeafSR and iSEC partners, and in the realm of defense, having been involved with various defense contractors and the US army. In this episode, Doug talks about wearing many hats at Datadog, first starting in infrastructure security and then moving along to product security amid the company’s rapid growth. But they eventually decided to merge the two teams into a security engineering team, and Dough offers some insight into the new team arrangements and the logic behind the initial separation. Joining in the conversation, listeners will get some advice around building effective communication within engineering teams, learn about the need to raise awareness about the shared responsibility of security, and hear Doug’s approach to developing, evaluating, and embedding security tools effectively. However, from all his years of experience, the most crucial lesson Dough has learned is to never underestimate the importance of people in the tech space, pointing out that without communication, negotiation, and compromise among team members, the tech aspects are bound to failShow notes and transcript can be found here  Follow UsOur WebsiteOur LinkedIn