Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. Today we’re excited to have an amazing guest, Keshav Malik, join us. Keshav is a Senior Product Security Engineer at LinkedIn. With experience in information security and a passion for automation, Keshav brings a unique blend of expertise to the table. Keshav is also a dedicated tech enthusiast and deeply passionate about contributing to the community. He actively writes custom security rules for various applications like Semgrep and has built several projects like QuickXSS, a bash script automating XSS workflows. Not stopping there, Keshav loves to share his knowledge by organizing workshops, empowering others to write their own custom security tests. Building on Keshav's experience in writing custom security rules, we've challenged him on whether adding custom rules to existing security software can be the next product security engineer's superpower. Want to find out what he thinks? Dive right in!