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, Mihir Shah, join us.
Mihir Shah is a Senior Staff Application Security Engineer at ForgeRock, specializing in architecting secure cloud-based Identity & Access Management services hosted using Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.
He is also the author of the Cloud Native Software Security Handbook, a comprehensive guide on securing cloud-native applications and services.
Additionally, he serves as an Industry Mentor at Stanford University's Advanced Cybersecurity Program and holds two patents on defense against cloud-native infrastructure.
Mihir is passionate about learning and sharing his knowledge on cloud-native security, software development security, and serverless computing. He is a frequent speaker and trainer at security conferences such as BlackHat, DefCon, and OWASP. Moreover, he has published multiple articles on Medium covering various security topics, such as hacking Windows machines, scanning vulnerable Docker images, and compromising Windows systems.
With his passion for the security of cloud-native applications, we decided to ask him how challenging it is. Dive right in!