Summary

• Product Security Knowledge Base

• 🏛️ Strategy, Governance, and Leadership

  • Product Security Management and Director Handbook

    • 🧭 Operating Models, Intake, and Ownership
    • 🧭 Product Security Operating Model — Services, Intake, Engagement, and Escalation
    • 🧭 Product Security Operating Processes — Director Audit Checklist
    • 🗓️ Six-Week Product Security Express Audit Plan
    • 📈 Leadership Metrics Pack for Product Security
    • 🧾 Risk Acceptance, Exceptions, and Decision Records
    • 🧾 Risk Acceptance and Exception Governance — Operating Model
    • 💰 Security Program Economics and Investment Decisions
    • 💼 Business Case and Budget Justification for Product Security
    • 🗣️ Stakeholder Communication and Executive Narratives
    • 🛣️ Maturity Roadmaps and Transformation Plans
    • 👥 Product Security Contributors, Authors, and Community Builders
    • 🌟 Julie Davila and Vincent Danen — Product Security Leadership Notes
    • 👥 Product Security Team Staffing, Capacity, and RASI Workbook
    • 🎤 Product Security Manager Interview Pack (2026)
    • 🧠 Product Security Manager STAR Case Stories
    • 🎤 Product Security Director / VP / Principal Interview Pack (2026)
    • 🧠 Product Security Director / VP STAR Case Stories
    • 🧪 Interview Panel Packets and Scoring Sheets
    • 🪜 Role Leveling and Compensation Signal Ladder
    • 📝 Performance Review Self-Writeups for Product Security
    • 🎯 Skip-Level and Director-Review Scripts

  • Senior Engineer Perspectives

    • 🎯 Advanced Detection and Response for Senior Engineers
    • ⚖️ Security Decision Frameworks and Tool Trade-Offs
    • 🏗️ Architecture Trade-Offs for Security and Platform Teams
    • 🚫 Real-World Security Anti-Patterns and Failure Modes
    • 📏 Performance, Scale, and Friction Management
    • 🪜 Staff / Principal Calibration Rubric and Signal Ladder

• 🧩 Application Security and Secure SDLC

  • Threat Modeling

    • 🧭 Threat Modeling Methods and Workflows
    • 🏢 Multi-Tenant and Microservice Threat Modeling
    • 📝 Architecture Review Question Bank and Decision Records
    • 🧱 Security Requirements, Trust Boundaries, Data Flows, and Architectural Trade-offs
    • 🧭 STRIDE, DREAD, and PASTA — Practical Comparison
    • ☸️ Threat Modeling Process — Kubernetes Example

  • Application Security

    • SAST Noise Reduction
    • 🥋 DefectDojo and ASPM Platforms
    • 🧭 ASOC and ASPM Orchestration Platforms
    • 🔐 Repository Secret Scanning
    • 🔎 TruffleHog and Gitleaks Deep Dive
    • GitHub and GitLab Native Secret Scanning Comparison
    • 📱 Mobile Application Security Testing
    • 🧪 Mobile Report Analysis and Finding Walkthrough
    • 🧠 Catch It Before Commit: IDE Security Linters and Pre-Commit SAST
    • 🌐 Web Application Security Testing and Gate Patterns
    • 🏗️ Web Application Security Architecture — Practical Intro
    • 🌐 Web Application Security Review and Architecture Playbook
    • 🌐 SSRF, File Fetch, and Parser Abuse Review Guide
    • 🧱 Secure by Design for AppSec and SDLC
    • 🔊 SonarQube Modern Practical Guide — Quality Gates, Security Hotspots, PR Analysis, and Review Workflows
    • 🧭 Burp Suite vs OWASP ZAP — Practical Positioning
    • 🔎 Semgrep / CodeQL / SonarQube Positioning
    • 🧠 Business Logic Vulnerabilities and Verification

  • Frontend and Browser Security

    • 🧱 Browser Security Foundations: CSP, CORS, Cookies, and Sessions
    • 🔑 OAuth for SPA, BFF, and Frontend Secret Anti-Patterns
    • 📦 Third-Party Scripts, File Handling, and Frontend Supply Chain
    • 🌐 Web-Server Security Controls: HTTPS, CORS, CSP, and HSTS for Apache and Nginx

  • Business Logic Abuse and Product Abuse

    • 👤 Account Takeover, Automation, and Bot Abuse
    • 💸 Signup, Trial, Promo, and Business-Flow Abuse
    • 🧩 Tenant Isolation, Object-Level, and Workflow Abuse

  • Stack-Specific Secure Engineering

    • 🛠️ Backend Service Security Guides by Stack
    • 🟩 Node.js Server Security — Practical Guide and Review Map
    • ☕ Spring Boot and Spring Security — Practical Guide
    • 📱 Frontend Framework and Mobile Backend Security Guides
    • ✅ Stack-Specific Review Checklists and Release Criteria
    • 💻 Code Vulnerability Examples and Fixes by Language
    • 🧪 Secure Coding Review Labs and Language-Specific Checklists
    • 🎓 Secure Coding Review Labs — Facilitator Guide
    • ✅ Language-Specific Secure Coding Review Checklists
    • 🧩 Secure Coding Review Lab Scenarios by Language
    • 🐘 PHP Vulnerability Examples and Fixes
    • 🐍 Python Vulnerability Examples and Fixes
    • 🪙 Golang Vulnerability Examples and Fixes
    • ☕ Java Vulnerability Examples and Fixes
    • 🟨 JavaScript Vulnerability Examples and Fixes
    • 🟦 TypeScript Vulnerability Examples and Fixes
    • 🗄️ SQL Vulnerability Examples and Fixes

• ⚙️ DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Supply Chain

  • DevSecOps Lifecycle

    • 🛠️ Develop Phase — Practical DevSecOps Controls
    • 🧪 Test Phase — Fast Gates, Deep Tests, and What Still Belongs Out of Band
    • 🗺️ DevSecOps Toolchain — Practical Map, Legacy vs Current
    • 🧭 DevOpsSec Foundations — Shift Left, Small Batches, and Compliance as Code
    • 🧭 DevSecOps Stage Map and Modern Pipeline Patterns
    • 🗺️ DevSecOps Playbook Domains, Priority, Difficulty, and Adoption Roadmap

  • CI/CD and Software Supply Chain Security

    • GitLab CI YAML Deep Dive
    • Security Quality Gates and Release Blocking
    • Runner Isolation and Trust Boundaries
    • Protected Environments and Deployment Approvals
    • Reusable GitLab Includes and Components
    • Gate Aggregation Scripts
    • GitLab Release Evidence
    • Argo CD AppProject and Sync Windows
    • DefectDojo Integration Patterns
    • GitLab System Security Baseline
    • 🧾 Repository Governance — CODEOWNERS, SECURITY.md, and Default Files
    • 🔐 Secret Scanning in Quality Gates
    • 📱 Mobile Testing Quality Gates and DefectDojo Integration
    • 🕷️ OWASP ZAP in the Real World: Tuning, Reports, and Quality Gates
    • 🔐 OWASP ZAP Authenticated Scanning and Session Management
    • 🧭 OWASP ZAP and DAST Modernization Patterns
    • 🧪 OWASP ZAP for APIs, Automation Framework, and OAST — Modern Practice
    • 🚦 SonarQube CI, PR Analysis, Quality Gates, and External Issues
    • 🦊 GitLab Top 10 Misconfigurations
    • 📦 Software Supply Chain Foundations
    • 🧾 SCA, SBOM, and Supply Chain Tooling — Legacy vs Current
    • ✍️ Signing, Attestation, and Verification — Legacy vs Current
    • 🔗 Chainloop and Supply Chain Evidence
    • 🧰 Jenkins Server Security Hardening and Top 10 Issues
    • 🐙 GitHub Actions for Product Security
    • 📦 Local Artifact Repository Scanning and JFrog Xray
    • 🏗️ Harbor Registry Hardening
    • 🏃 Self-Hosted Runners Security Review Pack
    • 🦊 GitLab CI/CD Modern Security Patterns
    • 🤖 Security Automation Controllers — AWX, Jenkins, and Rundeck Patterns
    • 🛣️ Commit to Deployment Security Control Plane
    • 🚦 Release Governance — Security Sign-Off, Quality Gates, Acceptance Criteria, and Escalation
    • 🧱 Secure Build Factory / Artifact Signing / Deployment Approval Evidence Pack
    • 🧰 Custom Security Toolbox Container for Post-Build Tests
    • 🔄 Dependency Updates — Renovate, Dependabot, Cadence, Controlled Rollout, and Compatibility Testing

  • Third-Party and Integration Security

    • 📦 Marketplace, Actions, Images, Helm, and Public Component Review
    • 🔄 Webhooks, OAuth, and SaaS Integration Security
    • 🏃 Vendor Agents, Runners, and Build-Integration Trust Boundaries

• ☁️ Cloud, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure Security

  • Infrastructure and Cloud Security

    • AWS IAM and Role Design
    • AWS IAM Snippet Pack
    • ☁️ Cloud Security Across AWS, Azure, and GCP
    • 🟧 AWS Security Baseline and Top Misconfigurations
    • 🛡️ AWS WAF — Practical Baseline for Managed Rules, Rate Limits, and Logging
    • 🔐 Internal PKI for Microservices — mTLS, Certificate Automation, and Trust Distribution
    • 🔑 AWS and Azure KMS / HSM Key Management Patterns
    • ☁️ Cloud Environment Security — IAM, Network, Storage, Service Configurations, Visibility, Posture, and Blast Radius
    • 🧱 Apache, NGINX, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, MariaDB, and RabbitMQ Hardening
    • 🗄️ Database Activity Monitoring, Immutable Logging, and Privileged Session Management
    • 🟦 Azure Security Baseline and Top Misconfigurations
    • 🟨 GCP Security Baseline and Top Misconfigurations
    • 🧱 Terraform Security Scanning and Checkov
    • 🛡️ Security as Policy for Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
    • 🧱 Infrastructure as Code Maturity and Test Strategy
    • Terraform Snippet Pack
    • 🧱 Terraform Top 10 Misconfigurations
    • 🐧 Linux Base Image and Host Security Baseline
    • 🤖 Ansible Security Baseline and Top 10 Misconfigurations
    • 🤖 Ansible for EC2 Host Security: 7 High-Value Tasks That Actually Matter
    • 🐧 Linux Host Security: Top 10 Misconfigurations and a Fast Audit Playbook
    • 🔐 Secret Management on HashiCorp Vault
    • 🔐 Mozilla SOPS: age, KMS, and GitOps-Friendly Secret Workflows
    • Vault Installation, HA, and Automation Pack
    • 🛰️ Cloud Auditing by API and Configuration State
    • 🛰️ Cloud Audit Cookbook by Provider
    • 🔎 Semgrep for Cloud Security and Infrastructure as Code

  • Container and Kubernetes Security

    • 🐳 Dockerfile Security Best Practices
    • 🐳 Docker Top 10 Misconfigurations
    • ☸️ Kubernetes Security Baseline
    • ☸️ Kubernetes Top 10 Misconfigurations
    • Network Policy Patterns
    • 👥 Kubernetes RBAC and ABAC
    • 🔐 Kubernetes API Access Hardening
    • 🐙 OPA and Policy Enforcement
    • 🎤 OPA / Gatekeeper Mock Interview Pack
    • 🧩 Kyverno Deep Pages
    • 🧭 Runtime Investigation Playbook for Kubernetes and Containers
    • 🛡️ Trusted Images, Harbor, and Signing
    • 🧱 Kubernetes Hardening
    • 🧰 Kubernetes Security Tooling Map and Standards
    • 🧱 StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform Guide
    • 🐳☸️ Implementing DevSecOps with Docker and Kubernetes — Modernization Map
    • 🐳 AppArmor and Seccomp for Docker
    • 🗂️ Kubernetes Risks and Measures Catalog
    • ☸️ Kubernetes Review Map — CKS Domains and Modern Attack Paths
    • ☸️ Istio / Linkerd mTLS Operations and Certificate Rotation
    • 📚 Kubernetes Security Glossary and Term Map

• 🔐 Architecture, API, Crypto, and Identity

  • API Security

    • API Design and Contract Security
    • API Authentication and Authorization
    • API Abuse Resilience and Rate Limits
    • 🧭 API Authorization, Business-Flow Abuse, and Third-Party API Consumption
    • API Testing, Observability, and Release Gates
    • 🕸️ GraphQL Security Review and Abuse Patterns
    • 🛰️ GraphQL and gRPC Security Review Patterns
    • API Gateway Policy Examples
    • 🔐 API Security in Action — Modern Patterns and Review Questions

  • Secure Architecture Patterns

    • 🏢 Multi-Tenant SaaS and Admin-Plane Patterns
    • 🔗 Service-to-Service Auth, Webhooks, and Event-Driven Security
    • 🌐 Zero-Trust Egress and Private Connectivity Patterns
    • 🧱 Secure Defaults and Golden Paths for Product and Platform Teams

  • Identity and Platform Access

    • 🤖 Workload Federation and Non-Human Identities
    • 🪪 mTLS and Service Identity Deep Dive
    • 🔐 GitHub, GitLab, and Cloud Trust Patterns
    • ⏱️ JIT, PAM, Break-Glass, and Admin Access
    • 🔐 Keycloak — Foundations, Installation, and Integrations

  • Data Security and Privacy Engineering

    • 🏷️ Data Classification and Sensitive Data Lifecycle
    • 🔐 Application-Level Encryption, Tokenization, Masking, and Key Management
    • 🔒 Secure Storage and Secrets Anti-Patterns
    • 🧹 Log Redaction, Backups, and Privacy by Design
    • 🔐 Crypto Design — Key Hierarchy, Envelope Encryption, Signing, Rotation, and Common Mistakes

• 🛡️ Attack Paths, Testing, Detection, and Hardening

  • Detection and Response

    • 📜 Logging and Telemetry Strategy
    • 🎯 High-Signal Detection Patterns and SIEM Examples
    • 🛠️ Product Security Incident Response Playbooks
    • 🐦 Falco Runtime Detection Practical Guide
    • 🛎️ Runtime Detection Stack — Falco, Tetragon, and Cloud Signals
    • 🛡️ Sysdig Secure — Platform Guide
    • ⚖️ Runtime Platforms Comparison — Falco vs Sysdig vs Prisma vs Tetragon
    • 🛡️ Runtime Security / Detection / Incident Response / Resilience — Operating Model and Product Map
    • 🧭 Cloud and Kubernetes Runtime Investigation Playbooks and Containment Templates

  • Attack Paths and Misconfigurations

    • 🔗 Cloud Attack Chains Overview
    • 🟧 AWS Cloud Attack Chains
    • 🟦 Azure Cloud Attack Chains
    • 🟨 GCP Cloud Attack Chains
    • ☸️ Kubernetes Attack Chains for Defensive Preparation

• 📈 Metrics, Audit, Risk, Evidence, and Compliance

  • Governance, Roles, Metrics, and OKR

    • 📈 Product Security Director Metrics
    • 📊 Product Security Maturity, Scale, and Business Translation
    • 🧑‍💼 Role-Based KPI Patterns for Product Security
    • 🧮 Collecting Product Security Metrics Without ASPM or ASOC
    • 📉 DevSecOps Metrics: DORA, AppSec Coverage, and Security Debt
    • 📐 AppSec Coverage, Risk Index, and ROI Translation
    • 📦 Director Packs, Scorecards, and Review Cadence
    • 📄 Quarterly Product Security Review Template
    • 🧾 Board-Ready Product Security Reporting Pages
    • 🧾 Annual Product Security Report for Stakeholders
    • 🧾 Policy Exception Governance Pack
    • 🧭 Practical Starting Guide for Cloud and Product Security Programs
    • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Security Champions Program Playbook
    • 🗂️ Product Security Policy Library and DOCX Starter Pack
    • 🎯 Director OKRs and Role KPIs Linked to Performance Review
    • 🧰 Mature Product Security Workflows, Stage Gates, and Operating Loops
    • 📏 Security Metrics and KPIs — Coverage, MTTR, Finding Aging, Threat-Model Coverage, Secret Exposure Rate, and Business Translation

  • Compliance and Assurance

    • ☁️ Cloud Security Frameworks and Standards — Practical Map
    • ☁️ CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) — Practical Guide
    • 🧾 Compliance-to-Engineering Evidence Pass
    • 🇺🇸 U.S. Cybersecurity Laws and Sector Compliance — Quick Map
    • Vendor Guides and Standards Map
    • 🩹 Vulnerability Management / Remediation / Audit / Compliance Mapping
    • 🧾 SOX 404-Style ITGC for Product Security, DevSecOps, Cloud, and Kubernetes
    • 🧾 SOC 2 Product Security Audit Template Pack

  • 🧪 Worked-Example Leadership Pack

    • 📘 Quarterly Product Security Review — Worked Example
    • 🧾 Board Security Review — Worked Example
    • 🛠️ Engineering Leadership Scorecard and Narrative — Worked Example
    • 🧭 Executive Risk Themes and Decisions — Worked Example
    • 💼 Roadmap, Investment, and Headcount Ask — Worked Example
    • 🚨 Incident Quarter Update and Board Follow-Up — Worked Example

  • 🧭 BSIMM and OWASP SAMM for Product Security Leaders

    • 🧭 BSIMM and OWASP SAMM — Overview, Value, and Comparison
    • 📚 BSIMM Deep Dive — Domains, Practices, and Manager Use
    • 🗺️ OWASP SAMM Deep Dive — Business Functions, Practices, and Roadmapping
    • 🧩 Using BSIMM and SAMM Together — Assessments, Roadmaps, and Quarterly Reviews
    • 🧭 DevSecOps Assessment Framework (DAF) and DSOMM — Practical Positioning
    • 📝 Self-Assessment Report Examples for OWASP SAMM and BSIMM

• 🎓 Learning, Labs, Interview, and Templates

  • Snippets and Reference

    • Git Commit Signing and Image Signing
    • Kubernetes Baseline Reference
    • GitLab SonarQube PR Quality Gate job
    • GitHub Actions SonarQube PR Quality Gate workflow
    • Example sonar-project.properties
    • Express security baseline snippet
    • Spring Boot SecurityFilterChain and method-security snippet
    • Spring Boot actuator-specific security-chain snippet
    • AWS WAF v2 baseline Web ACL starter
    • cert-manager root / CA bootstrap starter
    • trust-manager private CA bundle starter
    • Vault PKI bootstrap and issuance starter
    • step-ca containerized starter
    • GraphQL Apollo depth and introspection starter
    • gRPC Go mTLS and deadlines starter
    • AWS KMS envelope encryption CLI starter
    • Azure Key Vault rotation and wrap starter
    • Advanced pod hardening starter
    • SOX-style Product Security ITGC finding template
    • Apache HTTP Server hardening starter
    • NGINX hardening starter
    • Kafka broker security starter
    • Redis hardening starter
    • MySQL hardening starter
    • MariaDB audit starter
    • RabbitMQ hardening starter
    • DAM / Immutable Logging / Privileged Session Review Checklist
    • Secrets Anti-Patterns Review Checklist
    • mTLS / Service Identity Review Checklist
    • Cloud / Kubernetes Runtime Incident Case Tracker
    • Kubernetes containment decision template
    • Secure build factory control checklist
    • GitHub Actions cosign attestation and approval starter
    • Istio strict mTLS and authorization starter
    • Linkerd cert-manager issuer rotation notes
    • Semgrep / CodeQL / SonarQube selection matrix
    • Interviewer scorecard template
    • Take-home evaluation sheet
    • Panel debrief template
    • Leveling and offer calibration template

  • Interview Labs

    • GitLab Mock Interview Pack
    • Argo CD Mock Interview Pack
    • Terraform Mock Interview Pack
    • Kubernetes Security Assessment Pack
    • AWS Cloud Security Assessment Pack
    • Network Policy Assessment Pack
    • Terraform and IaC Security Assessment Pack
    • CI/CD and Runner Security Assessment Pack
    • Interview Answer Patterns, Tactics, and Hiring-Loop Meta
    • AppSec Engineer Interview Pack (2026)
    • DevSecOps Engineer Interview Pack (2026)
    • Product Security Architect Interview Pack (2026)
    • 🧠 AppSec Engineer STAR Case Stories
    • 🧠 DevSecOps Engineer STAR Case Stories
    • 🧪 AppSec Engineer Code and Weakness Review Drills
    • 🔎 AppSec Vulnerable Code Screening Cheat Sheet by Language
    • 🧪 DevSecOps Engineer Configuration and Platform Review Drills
    • Docker, Linux, and Ansible Security Assessment Pack

  • Learning Paths and Labs

    • 🗺️ Product Security Ramp-Up Tracks
    • 🛣️ DevSecOps Engineer Learning Roadmap (2026)
    • 🛣️ Application Security Engineer Learning Roadmap (2026)
    • 🧪 Break-Fix Labs and Tabletop Scenarios
    • ⚔️ Hands-On Attack-to-Defense Playbooks
    • 📋 Security Review Checklists and Cheat Sheets
    • 🐐 Vulnerable Learning Labs and Goat Environments
    • ☁️ AWSGoat — AWS Cloud Lab
    • 🧭 CloudGoat — Scenario-Based Cloud Lab
    • 🏗️ CI/CD Goat — Pipeline Security Lab
    • 🧃 OWASP Juice Shop — Web and API Lab
    • ☸️ Kubernetes Goat — Cluster Security Lab
    • 🧨 OWASP EKS Goat — AWS EKS Lab
    • 🧱 TerraGoat — IaC Misconfiguration Lab
    • 📱 Mobile Security Lab Track — NowSecure, iOS, and Android Learning Flow
    • 🧭 NowSecure Mobile AppSec Learning Flow
    • 🤖 Android Mobile AppSec Labs — AndroGoat and OWASP Crackmes
    • 🍎 iOS Mobile AppSec Labs — DVIA and OWASP Crackmes
    • 🧾 API Definition Conformance Lab — OpenAPI, Contract Linting, AuthZ Checks, and CI Validation
    • ☁️ Cloud Compliance Scan Lab — Scan → Triage → Fix → Codify
    • 🛡️ Containment and Eradication Automation Lab
    • 🧑‍💻 Secure Coding Training Platforms for Developers
    • 🧪 DevSecOps-Studio — Virtual Lab Environment for Learning DevSecOps
    • 💻 Developer Workstation Hardening for AppSec and DevSecOps
    • 🧭 Essential AWS DevSecOps Self-Study Path
    • 🎤 Curated Conference Talks 2021–2025
    • 🧭 Awesome GitHub Repositories for DevSecOps, AppSec, and Cloud Security
    • 🌐 Product Security Ecosystem Projects, Communities, and Learning Hubs
    • 📚 Top Books for Product Security by Domain and Role
    • 🗓️ Three-Month Product Security Self-Study Plan
    • 🧰 Product Security Tooling Landscape and Inventory
    • 🧰 Online Validators, Linters, Generators, and Visual Tools

  • 🚀 Newcomer Ramp-Up and Review Checklists

    • 🗺️ Guided Learning Paths for Newcomers
    • 🧭 From Zero to Useful: How to Start Without Sounding Lost
    • 📋 Security Review Checklists and Cheat Sheets
    • 🧠 Review Cheat Sheets for Code, Design, Cloud, Kubernetes, and Release
    • 🚦 Pre-Release Security Checklist
    • 🧩 API Review Checklist
    • ☁️ Cloud Change Review Checklist
    • 🛡️ Production Readiness Security Checklist
    • 🔐 Secret Handling Checklist
    • 🗓️ Day in the Life — AppSec, DevSecOps, Manager, and Director
    • 🗣️ Product Security Communication Patterns for Non-Native English Speakers
    • 🪪 IAM Review Checklist
    • 🐳 Dockerfile Review Checklist
    • ☸️ Kubernetes Deployment Review Checklist

• 📚 Appendices, Assets, and Reusable Artifacts

  • Appendices
    • 📚 Glossary
    • 🧭 Reading Paths
    • 🗺️ Diagram Index
    • 🔗 Reference Links
    • 🎨 Visual Style Guide
    • 🗂️ Collapsible Blocks and QA Writing Patterns
  • 🧰 Assets and Reusable Artifact Guide