FEATURED VOICES IN THIS EPISODE
Clint Bruce
Clint Bruce is a former Navy Special Warfare Officer, a graduate of the US Naval Academy, decorated athlete, and seasoned entrepreneur. A 4-year letter winner at Navy playing middle linebacker, captain and MVP of the ’96 Aloha Bowl Championship team, he was named to multiple all-star teams his senior year. He enjoyed opportunities with both the Baltimore Ravens and New Orleans Saints and was inducted into the Navy/Marine Corps Stadium Hall of Fame in 2009. Clint’s desire to serve was deep and firmly rooted. He left the NFL to pursue becoming a Navy SEAL and successfully completed BUDS (Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training) in 1998 with Class 217. Joining SEAL Team FIVE, Clint completed multiple deployments pre and post-911 directly involved in counter-terrorism and national security missions globally. He is a co-founder of Carry the Load, which was founded to restore true meaning to Memorial Day and celebrate the service and sacrifice of Police, Fire, and Rescue personnel and their families during the month of May. Clint lives in Dallas with his college sweetheart and three daughters who are not impressed that he played football or was a Navy SEAL.
Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray is the producer and presenter of the Risky Business weekly information security podcast, a weekly podcast that launched in 2007. He formerly was a journalist for publications including Wired.com, ZDNet Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Bulletin (magazine) and Men's Style Australia.
Eric Olson
Eric Olson is the Director of Threat Intelligence for Jet Blue Airways. A threat intelligence professional for more than 20 years, Eric has had executive roles including Senior Vice President of Product Management and Vice President, Intellugence Operations, at LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, and was VP of Product Strategy at Cyveillance.
Allan Friedman
Allan Friedman is Senior Advisor and Strategist at the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and one of the nation's leading experts on Software Bill of Materials. Allan leads CISA's efforts to coordinate SBOM initiatives inside and outside the US government, and around the world. He is known for applying technical and policy expertise to help audiences understand the pathways to change in an engaging fashion, and is frequently invited to speak or keynote to industry, academic, and public audiences. Wearing the hats of both a technologist and a policy maker, Allan has over 15 years of experience in international cybersecurity and technology policy. His experience and research focuses on economic and market analyses of information security. On the practical side, he has designed, convened, and facilitated national and international multistakeholder processes that have produced real results, helping diverse organizations finding common ground on contentious, cutting edge issues.
Evan Sultanik, PhD
Evan Sultanik is a Principal Computer Security Researcher at Trail of Bits. A computer scientist with extensive experience both in industry (as a software engineer) and academia, Evan is an active contributor to open source software. He is author of more than two dozen peer-reviewed academic papers, and is particularly interested in intelligent, distributed/peer-to-peer systems. Evan is editor of and frequent contributor to the International Journal of PoC||GTFO.
William Woodruff
William Woodruff is a senior security engineer at Trail of Bits, contributing to the engineering and research practices in work for corporate and governmental clients. He has developed several of our open-source projects (e.g., twa, winchecksec, KRF, and mishegos). His work focuses on fuzzing, program analysis, and automated vulnerability reasoning. Outside of Trail of Bits, William helps to maintain the Homebrew project, the dominant macOS package manager. Before joining Trail of Bits, he was a software engineering intern at Cipher Tech Solutions, a small defense subcontractor. He has participated in the Google Summer of Code for four years (two as a student, two as a mentor) and taught a class in ethical hacking as a college senior. William holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Maryland (2018).
HOST: Nick Selby
An accomplished information and physical security professional, Nick leads the Software Assurance Practice at Trail of Bits, giving customers at some of the world's most targeted companies a comprehensive understanding of their security landscape. He is the creator of the Trail of Bits podcast, and does everything from writing scripts to conducting interviews to audio engineering to Foley (e.g. biting into pickles). Prior to Trail of Bits, Nick was Director of Cyber Intelligence and Investigations at the NYPD; the CSO of a blockchain startup; and VP of Operations at an industry analysis firm.
PRODUCTION STAFF
Story Editor: Chris Julin
Associate Editor: Emily Haavik
Executive Producer: Nick Selby
Executive Producer: Dan Guido
RECORDING
Recorded at Rocky Hill Studios, Ghent, NY - Nick Selby, Engineer;
22Springroad Tonstudio, Übersee, Germany - Volker Lesch, Engineer
Remote recordings were conducted at Whistler, BC, Canada (Nick Selby); Clint Bruce was recorded in a Google Meet session; Patrick Gray provided recordings of himself from Australia, courtesy of the Risky Business podcast. Eric Olson recorded himself on an iPhone. Washington, DC (tape sync of Allan Friedman by George Mocharko). Trail of Bits supports and adheres to the Tape Syncers United Fair Rates Card.
Edited by Emily Haavik and Chris Julin
Mastered by Chris Julin
Video
You can watch a video of this episode.
MUSIC
Dispatches From Technology's Future, the Trail of Bits theme, Chris Julin
EVERYBODY GET UP - No Vocals & FX - Ian Post
JD SCAVENGER by Randy Sharp
RIPPLES by Tamuz Dekel
FUTURE PERFECT, Evgeny Bardyuzha
THE SWINDLER, The Original Orchestra]
BLUE - ALTERNATIVE - INSTRUMENTAL VERSION by Faith Richards
OU ALLONS NOUS D'ICI - INSTRUMENTAL, Dan Zeitune
LITTLE EDGY, Chris Julin
SCAPES: Gray North
Reproduction
With the exception of any Copyrighted music herein, Trail of Bits Season 1 Episode 3; It Depends © 2022 by Trail of Bits is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. This license allows reuse: reusers may copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only (noncommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation), provided that reusers give credit to Trail of Bits as the creator. No derivatives or adaptations of this work are permitted. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Referenced in this Episode:
The original blog post announcing the availability of It Depends describes the history you just heard with more technical specificity, and also of course links to the GitHub repository where you can download It Depends and try it for yourself.
That blog post also links to the repository where you can download pip-audit, and give that a whirl.
In the 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, the Biden Administration announced that it would require SBOMs for all software vendors selling to the federal government.
Dependabot is a tool available to GitHub users.
If you’re interested in the catalog of open source projects Trail of Bits participates in and contributes to, please read the blog post
Celebrating our 2021 Open Source Contributions. There, you can read about our work contributing for example to LLVM - the compiler and toolchain technologies we discuss in the Podcast episode Future - to Pwndbg, a GDB plug-in that makes debugging with GDB “suck less.” The post includes links to contributions our engineer consultants have made to a huge range of open source projects from assert-rs to ZenGo-X.
Meet the Team:
CHRIS JULIN
Chris Julin has spent years telling audio stories and helping other people tell theirs. These days he works as a story editor and producer for news outlets like APM Reports, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and Marketplace. He has also taught and mentored hundreds of young journalists as a professor. For the Trail of Bits podcast, he serves as story and music editor, sound designer, and mixing and mastering engineer.
EMILY HAAVIK
For the past 10 years Emily Haavik has worked as a broadcast journalist in radio, television, and digital media. She’s spent time writing, reporting, covering courts, producing investigative podcasts, and serving as an editorial manager. She now works as an audio producer for several production shops including Us & Them from West Virginia Public Broadcasting and PRX, and APM Reports. For the Trail of Bits podcast, she helps with scripting, interviews, story concepts, and audio production.
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