Ditching the SDLC w/ Rajendra Umadas, Head of InfoSec at ActBlue

Champions of Security

In Episode 6 of Champions of Security, Jacob Garrison interviews Rajendra Umadas, Head of InfoSec at ActBlue.

Raj leads the security team over at Actblue. Over the years, he has been lucky to work with some great people and in some truly interesting organizations. From his time pentesting and focusing on embedded systems security at The Intrepidus Group, to being a security engineer securing systems over at Etsy and Spotify, to starting and running platform security teams over at WeWork and Compass, he has had an opportunity to secure all the things across all the stacks. A thread that ties all of these experiences together for Raj, is being sure to lead and solve problems in a first principled manner root deeply in understanding the problems of his stakeholders. This ensures that he can avoiding security "best practices" implementations for "best practices" sake.

Raj and Jacob talk about:

↳ Security professionals needing to take care of themselves

↳ Adjusting your risk tolerance to increase productivity

↳ The traditional SDLC is now dead

And so much more.

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