CSCP S03E06 - Aladdin Almubayed - Appsec Journey from FAANG to Robinhood

 

Aladdin Almubayed is the AppSec Engineering Technical Lead at Robinhood, previously a Senior Security Software Engineer at Netflix. After getting his master in Jordan, he moved to Silicon Valley to work at Yahoo. Francesco and Aladdin discuss the evolving industry, fostering positive relationships with developers, and identifying organizations’ crown jewels. 

 

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0:00 Introduction

0:28 Aladdin’s background

3:40 Masters in Jordan

6:50 Industry past 10 years

7:54 Micro-service architecture

9:44 Work at Netflix

11:08 Work at Robinhood

13:40 Challenges in security

16:00 Security nightmare story

19:40 Security revolution breaking point

21:30 Threat Modeling and Pen Testing

24:50 Creating positive opinion of security

28:36 Quantifying risk

31:26 Positive message

34:40 Connect with Aladdin

35:10 Outro 

 

Aladdin Almubayed

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aladdin-mubaied/

Twitter @0xshellrider 

 

Cyber Security and Cloud Podcast hosted by Francesco Cipollone

Twitter @FrankSEC42

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