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Johnathon Claudius

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
287 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

And for us, we've

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

really try to position ourselves as enablers, being able to help folks work through these problems in an active way.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

And I think this goes back to the, you don't make security decisions in a two-week convenient window.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

I think the ball is constantly going to be moving, right?

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

And for us, I feel like that puts us in a good position with our clients to be able to respond to the threat of the day or the threat that we're facing right now, and we can continue to iterate with them over time.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

I think the initial guidance that I give to most folks is thinking about a lot of people, it's the most boring thing I can suggest, but like a lot of people misunderstand the value of doing good policy work up front.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

When I say good policy work, I mean, for example, like on the G Suite side, making sure that you use security keys within your G Suite instance, that you use branch protection on GitHub and a bunch of these, like what I would otherwise call easy wins.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

These are things that feel onerous maybe at the time, but they're generally pretty high value things to do is that they're kind of a set once and benefit forever type thing.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

The other thing I would do, especially for folks that are early, it likely indicates that they probably just don't have a lot of funding yet.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

Maybe this is a...

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

Sort of like a garage exercise where these guys are working together, trying to figure something out early.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

These LM tools are quite good.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

So I think you can start to mount a reasonable defense by just asking it to look for vulnerabilities in your code.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

I wouldn't necessarily consider that like a comprehensive program, but it's a great place to start.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

And I think if you can get an easy and a fast iterative win, then you should take it always.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

There's a lot of times like folks feel like because they can't afford, you know, full-time security person that that's like, you know, I guess we're just winging it.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

You know, I, I think for a lot of folks, a lot of projects, the idea is that like, if, if you're in that early stage, then like security becomes kind of everyone's problem.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

So you want to make these good decisions early around the easy wins for like the Web 2 side of things.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

And then on the Web 3 side of things, leveraging alarms of a great strategy.

Web3 with Sam Kamani
372: The Security Mistakes Every Web3 Founder Makes (And How to Avoid Them) with Guest Speaker Johnathon Claudius from Asymmetric Research

There's also kind of step up opportunities along the way.