Application security awareness is imparting knowledge to understand application security, exposing the security mistakes that have been made in the past, and activating everyone in an organization to take action for security. The goal of application security awareness is organizational security culture change. Come and learn how over 20,000 global Cisco employees and contractors improved their knowledge of product security in two years. How? Through creative and humorous technical security training, delivered by experts throughout Cisco. The team captured, educated, and entertained a critical engineering audience. Security is a journey, not a destination. Through our Top Ten Secrets of Success, we offer advice based on real world experience, as to how you may build effective and entertaining application security training in your organization.

Chris Romeo is the Chief Security Advocate within the Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL) program. He guides Cisco's Security Advocates, empowering engineers to "build security in" to all products at Cisco. He led the creation of Cisco's internal, end-to-end application security awareness program launched in 2012. Chris has twenty years of experience in security, holding positions across the gamut, including secure product development, penetration testing, and incident response. Chris is a sought after conference speaker, with experience speaking at the RSA Conference and ISC2 Security Congress. Chris holds the CISSP and CSSLP certifications and is fond of saying "We are all security people"".

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