Very often, people are afraid of web application firewalls (WAF) because they can potentially block an application's legitimate traffic. This can lead to problems in the production, which, admittedly, are really annoying! However, WAFs are a very useful additional layer of defense when it comes to defending attacks, such as those described by the "OWASP Top Ten".

Switching Software development team membership to cyber security in less time than it takes for a baby to start blinking. How might one enter the most in-demand field in less time than it takes for a baby to start blinking AKA the third trimester of pregnancy? The trick, of course, is that a little extra time between jobs didn't hurt for interviewing. This presentation only hints at recommendations and is not prescriptive. It willingly suggests that other parts of life keep happening. Other smoke and mirrors are revealed in this talk but... quality time advocating high priority fixes, plowing bug bounty programs, presenting security topics for Toastmasters, searching job sites, informational interviews, meet-ups, and obtaining a CISSP certificate all helped for a just in a time career change.

Traditional Threat Modeling focuses on the determination of security risk in an application. Today, this view is too narrow and does not deliver continual risk-oriented views of an enterprise application portfolio. Instead, we need an automated vertical pipeline (a policy to execution pipeline) that addresses risk by taking policies as the input and delivering DevOps operating procedures as the output.