Company
Date Published
Author
Brian Piper
Word count
850
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Director of Product Security at Snowflake, Jacob Salassi, shared his team's approach to establishing a successful application security program by starting with empathy towards developers, establishing a feedback loop, focusing on engineering excellence, driving accountability, creating focused training, and curating the entire security experience. The Snowflake team partnered with Snyk to leverage developer-first tooling, first- and third-party code remediation, seamless integration, detection for vulnerabilities in base image dependencies & Dockerfile commands, among other tools, to support their application security initiatives.