Synopsis

This microcast episode was recorded live from hackfest.ca 2012, on location in Quebec. The conference is a phenomenal success for the challenges they face (primarily non-English speaking region, small market, etc) but they've managed to attract a ridiculous amount of people to this conference, awesome speakers, and have one of the best 'War games' scenarios I've ever seen... listen to these two guys talk about how they make this happen.

Guests

• Steven McElrea (@Longferret) - contributed and supporting organizer, key cog in the hackfest.ca wheel!
• "Martin" - he's responsible for a lot of the design and infrastructure behind the War Games that were conducted here.

Synopsis

This episode is special because it's been a long-time-in-the-making interview with Brad Arkin of Adobe. This is the organization that many of the hacker community like to hate, and pick on - without realizing the monumental task of securing the software that Brad's team is responsible for. Brad's official title at Adobe is Engineering Senior Director but in real life one of the responsibilities his team is tasked with is doing product security for products like Adobe Flash and Reader ... Brad's take on software security and how he got the bug problem under control at Adobe is worth a listen!

Guest

Brad Arkin - Engineering Senior Director at Adobe - Brad has a long history of being involved in the Information Security world, particularly software security and has held many interesting roles from Cigital, to a technical director at @Stake, to working his way through Adobe since 2008. Brad can be found on LinkedIn, here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brad-arkin/1/2a8/4.