The Rise of
Fabian Lim
/about
• DevSecOps Engineer
– 1.5 years
– Culture Hacking
– Passion in Infrastructure and Operations
• Carnegie Mellon University
– MSc Information Security Policy and Management
• Singapore Management University
– BSc Information Systems
• Gym, Krav Maga enthusiast
/journey
1. DevSecOps Engineer
2. Open-Source Projects
3. Red Team
4. Culture Hacking
5. Security Defect Reporting & Metrics
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/peek
• A Peek into My Everyday
– Development and maintenance of in house tools
using experiments
– Security knowledge is essential to identify security
flaws
– Operations know-how of our own infrastructure so it
is resilient
• Red Team Monday is awesome!
• Blue Team All-Day is cool too!
/mindset
• Collaboration Focus
• Open and Transparent
• Prefer Shiteration over Perfection
• (Actively) “Hunting” mode over Reactive mode
• What keeps you up at night?
/how
• Everyone – needs to get their hands dirty at code
• Can-do Agile Attitude – Fail Fast, Crawl Walk Run
• Culture - Everyone is responsible for Security
• Red Teaming – Crucial to move the ‘urgency’ needle
• Metrics – to report, show trends
/why
• Passion
• Revolutionary Way of Doing Security
• Works and Improves the Security Posture of the
Company
• I Want to be Worked WITH Rather Than AGAINST
/open_source_projects
• GOAL: Get developers to be involved and
contribute your security tools
• EFFECT: Working together
• RESULT: Secure Company-Wide Projects
• TRADITION: Security Team v.s Development Team
• GOAL: We are all one – there is no ‘them’ and ‘us’
• METHOD: Security Understands Developers and
Helps to Solve Security Issues Together, not Blaming
• RESULT: Shared Sense of Responsibility
/culture
/red_team
• TARGET: Low-Hanging Fruit
• EFFECT: A Method to Convince
Management
• RESULT: Increases Focus and
Resources on Security
/security_defect_reporting
• GOAL: Measure State of Security
• EFFECT: Management sees
resources used effectively
• RESULT: Significantly improve
Visibility on Security Performance
/references
• devsecops.org
• github.com/devsecops/bootcamp
• @3jmaster
• http://www.devsecops.org/blog?tag=DevSecOps+Explained
/gracias

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