This is a collection of security-related things I (Antti Vähä-Sipilä) have done or contributed to. It's not complete by any measure. If you need help in modern software security, I may be able to help (contact me directly).
With "modern", I mean one or more of:
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I've lectured a basic course on software security, with emphasis on threat modelling and being able to build secure software in a commercially viable fashion.
Spring term 2018 at Aalto University, Spring term 2016 at Aalto University, Spring term 2015 at Aalto University, Spring 2014 at the University of Helsinki.
Science and pseudoscience march on. As years of client work have piled up on me, I don't always agree with everything I wrote a long time ago. However, the Internet never forgets (except when a company rebrands and invalidates all previous URLs). In reverse chronological order, and some of this includes stuff I made together with other people.
We presented at the IAPP Data Protection Intensive UK 2023 on how to be a next generation Privacy Pro. This was about integrating a privacy function into an agile product development org. The handouts, Software Diagrams for Privacy Professionals and The Bluffer's Guide to Agile Integration are available here.
I did a short appearance on a Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom panel on the security of consumer devices in September 2022 (YouTube, in Finnish).
We wrote and edited a report on the security and risk management of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency's Cyber Security Centre: Tekoälyn soveltamisen kyberturvallisuus ja riskienhallinta (2021, in Finnish with an English abstract). The report launch event is on YouTube (in Finnish).
For the Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN), here is Cybersecurity for business angels on YouTube (2021).
I talked about cloud native and its relationship to how security ought to be structured organisationally in my employer's marketing event Kyberbrunssi Herrasmieshakkereiden kanssa, from ~0:13 onwards (2021, in Finnish, event page). I also did one in English with much worse production values, but the video seems to have disappeared from the event page. The abstract's there though.
We wrote a blog post on threat modelling and privacy impact assessment in the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) (original link) for F-Secure's blog in 2020. Also did a webinar on the same theme, but that seems to have vanished from the Internet.
I talked about modern software development and security, and the concepts behind Finland's Digital and Population Data Services Agency's handbook for secure software development on a webinar (original webinar link) (2020, in Finnish).
Discovering privacy requirements in software development. Again, really old pre-GDPR stuff from OWASP Helsinki / IAPP KnowledgeNet in January 2015, Forum för Dataskydd in Stockholm in February 2015.
Software security in modern software development. This old presentation is DevSecOps in 2014.
Handbook of The Secure Agile Software Development Life Cycle (2014) has one article from me and another article describing prototype Generic Security User Stories that is also mentioned in the stuff below. I am not a huge fan of those prototype stories any more.
Software security and agile development and Software Security and DevOps, two presentations at the BSIMM Conference 2013. BSIMM Conferences are/were invite-only conferences organised by Cigital (later Synopsys) for their BSIMM community. I had the privilege to present on multiple years until 2018 at their conference series in the United States and once in Europe. The first one describes the 'smells of secure agile', cultural and process aspects that either help or hinder security. We used these as a lens to determine opportunities for change for dev teams. These have since evolved - mainly to cover recent DevOps-y practices - and are still being used.
Software security in agile product management (2011). This is an older paper which I have still up for reference. I don't agree with everything I wrote back then any more. But I think the layout came out pretty well.
As a Product Owner, I don't want to get 0wned - managing software security through requirements management. Vintage Topconf Tallinn 2012, SAP Security Expert Summit 2014 and Scan-Agile 2015 fare.
This talk on Privacy by Design is the first public outing of the TRIM privacy extension to Microsoft STRIDE - long before the GDPR. Presented at a Nixu seminar in 2011, I called it STRIDE+4 back then. TRIM has also evolved from those and currently means something slightly different. See above under 'Tools' for a link to a card game on this.
Product Security Management in Agile Product Management (2009) is a paper which I presented (video, slides) at OWASP AppSec Research 2010 in Stockholm. Based on LaTeX source timestamps, this is most likely November 2009, and is likely my earliest surviving written piece on security in agile development. Some of the practices there (like putting security criteria into a Definition of Done) have not survived the test of time, so please don't think this is what I currently think. This one also hints at Leffingwell's model later to be known as SAFe. Almost immediately after this, in 2020, there was another publication of this - see above.
A report on the first e-voting (DRE) pilot in Finland which I wrote for Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) (2009).
Information Security Education in Finnish Polytechnics, a survey of how information security was taught in Finland (in Finnish with an English abstract, 2003). BibTeX.
The security angle of RFC 2806: URLs for Telephone Calls is kind of funny - I thought I wrote a fairly decent security considerations section at the time, but there have been multiple vulnerabilities relating to tel: URIs since. (2000)
One of the random coursework reports I have here is Ciphering in GPRS and UMTS: Encryption in 3G Packet Data Networks (2000). I have it here just because I needed this info in 2021.
My MSc thesis On Encryption Key And Trust Management In Open Information Systems (in Finnish, with an English abstract) has absolutely nothing to do with agility but a lot to do with distributed systems (1999).