O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Building systems that help humans, designing better tools through user studies, and balancing the demands of shipping software with security.In this episode, O’Reilly Media’s Mac Slocum talks with Scout Brody, executive director of Simply Secure. They discuss building systems that help humans, designing better tools through user studies, and balancing the demands of shipping software with security.Here are some highlights: Building systems that help humans We tend to think of security as a technical problem and the user as the impediment to our perfect solution. That's why I try to bring the human perspective to the community. I think of human beings as the real end-goal of the system. Ultimately, if we aren't building systems that are meeting the needs of humans, why are we building systems at all? It's very important for us to get out and talk to people, to engage with users and understand what their concerns are. Designing better tools thr