John Prathab

Application Software Security Specialist, L Brands

John Prathab has a master's degree in software engineering and more than a decade of experience in IT, with 12 years in application security and three years in software development.

His primary responsibilities are in Secure SDLC, including but not limited to threat modeling, secure DevOps, web application firewalls, static and dynamic application security testing, RASP, pentesting and red teaming in order to safeguard information and hold people accountable for security. He's interested in active learning, innovation and mentorship and is certified in ethical hacking, computer hacking and forensic investigation. He holds SANS GMOB and Data Virtualization Architect certificates.

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Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The Secure SDLC learning path is a step-by-step approach to integrate the security controls into your software or system development life cycle. You will learn how to use each phase to develop or establish both proactive and reactive security controls across your organization. You can also learn about various tools, techniques and best practices to achieve your organizational goals.

Introduction to SDLC

In this course, you'll be introduced to Secure SDLC, a framework to establish system development by integrating security.

Security Awareness Training

Security awareness training is an education process that teaches employees and users about cybersecurity, IT best practices and even regulatory compliance.

Secure Requirements

Secure requirements are security features required by system users or a quality the system must have to increase the user's trust.

Secure Design

Secure design applies to individual features that can correspond to their respective secure requirements.

Secure Build

Secure build is a practice to apply the secure requirements and design to the software or system development.

Secure Deploy

Secure deploy is for the purpose of formalizing and automating the deployment process in a secure way.

Secure Validation

Secure validation is testing with a hacker's perspective to check whether the security controls are in place.

Secure Response

Secure response is a structured methodology for handling security incidents, breaches and cyber threats.

Collaborative Model

Collaboration is an approach that applies to a wide variety of systems.

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