Join us 03-06-26 for “Hacking Citizen Developers” – Super Cyber Friday

By
Rich Stroffolino
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Please join us on Friday March 6, 2026 for Super Cyber Friday.

Our topic of discussion will be “Hacking Citizen Developers: An hour of critical thinking about how to embrace democratizing development without creating security chaos.”

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Joining David Spark, producer of CISO Series for this discussion will be:

In preparation for our discussion, think about the following:

  • What’s the difference between “vibe coding” and citizen development?
  • What happens to traditional application security when the people building your software have never heard of OWASP, SDL, or basic security controls?
  • If security teams aren’t aware that citizen developers are building applications, who’s responsible when things break?
  • When code development pipelines have exploded across dozens of platforms, how do you inventory what’s being built?
  • How fast is the citizen developer problem growing, and at what point does the “jungle growing under the radar” become unmanageable?
  • If traditional development creates technical debt, what does ungoverned citizen development create? Shadow debt? 
  • How do you tell executives that their favorite productivity initiative is creating exponential security risk without sounding like the “department of no”?
  • When citizen developer platforms promise business agility, who’s accountable for the risks they introduce?
  • What’s different about citizen developer vulnerabilities versus traditional code? Or are we just seeing the same problems (data leakage, broken access control, shadow IT) with a new name?
  • What happens to security when the person who created the app has left the company? Who owns the orphaned application?
  • How do you create security guardrails for citizen development that don’t just recreate the bureaucracy that these platforms were supposed to eliminate?

It all starts at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific. At the end of the hour [2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific] we’ll switch gears to our meetup where everyone will get a chance to chat face to face.

Huge thanks to our sponsor, Nokod Security

ALSO…

  • We play games during the show, and some players can win prizes! Players in the US can receive prizes as gifts; those outside the US can win gift cards. 

Super Cyber Fridays are open discussions where all viewers and listeners are welcome to become participants. Before the scheduled event, connect your webcam and microphone (avoid Bluetooth). During the discussion, if you have a question or comment, let it be known in the chat room and our producer will do his best to get as many of you into the conversation. We look forward to you joining us.