SecAppDev 2026 Faculty
Ruben De Visscher
Principal Product Security Consultant, Toreon
Ruben leverages his extensive prior experience as a software engineer in the security space to help diverse organizations with improving their secure software development life cycles. He specializes in taking the results of threat models, penetration tests and DevSecOps tools and translating those into actionable recommendations for software development teams. He also teaches software organizations secure design and coding practices to strongly reduce entire categories of weaknesses, and how to use methodical and risk-based approaches to achieve high assurance development and testing practices.
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Grab your seat nowAchieving Risk-based and Effective Security Testing
Deep-dive lecture by Ruben De Visscher
This talk discusses how to achieve a risk-based and effective security testing strategy by taking ownership of what and how to test instead of relying on limited built-in checkers of off-the-shelf security scanning tools.
Key takeaway: Take ownership of your security testing strategy to improve coverage and efficiency, do not let tool vendors create a sub-optimal strategy for you.