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Researchers Are Your Friends | A Conversation With Jay Balan | Tech Done Different With Ted Harrington

Episode Summary

As a Security Research Director, Jay Balan is a researcher himself, submitting vulnerabilities to companies and he has a built his own bug bounty program for his company.

Episode Notes

As a Security Research Director, Jay Balan has lived on both sides of the responsible disclosure process: he is a researcher himself, submitting vulnerabilities to companies—and he has a built his own bug bounty program for his company, to receive vulnerabilities. He joins Tech Done Different to discuss the current state of relations between researchers and the companies they study, and what needs to change.

You'll learn:

• why it matters to have a security contact at your company
• why to hire a security company, and how to vet them
• why it is good to allow white hat hackers to hack you (yes, seriously)
• why "no vulnerabilities" is not the goal

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Guest
Jay Balan
Director of Security Research at Bitdefender [@Bitdefender]
On Twitter | https://twitter.com/Jaymzu
On LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/jaymzu

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Host
Ted Harrington
On ITSPmagazine  👉 https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/ted-harrington

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