Sajid's Corner

Sajid Pervez

Some context

My career is at an intersection of various skill sets from appsec, , cloudsec, and coding. These are my core areas of expertise. Everyday challanges and much needed empathy adds spice and sweetness into my role.

Titles keep changing but my work revolves around finding ways to solve software security puzzles and figuring solution for every design flaw and coding bugs.

I am currently a Principal Product Security Engineer at MYOB, a SaaS accounting software company supporting all types of businesses.

A bit of history

I started my career in 2005 as a developer writing code for cryptographic solutions (PKI) and integrating PKI and 2FA based strong authentication solutionss into enterprise environments. Some more fun parts of the job involved breaking applications.

Below is a my cyber career journey in Australia.

2022

Principal Product Security Engineer

MYOB

Jun 2022 - Present

Product security means application security, cloud security, security architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, developer education and more. Its fun.

2020

Application Security Lead

NBN

Sep 2020 - Jun 2022

As lead I was responsible for the maturity assessment of application security program, roll-out of SAST and SCA to all critical applications, training developers on secure coding practices.

2019

Application Security Engineer

AGL

Aug 2019 - Sep 2020

Led the development of application security program. Conducted regular secure code assessments and automated security workflows.

2018

Application Security Consultant

Telstra

Apr 2018 - Aug 2019

Responsible for application security tooling, automation, maintenance, reporting, training and helping developers with triaging/remediation.

2015

Senior TS Advisor (PCI-QSA)

UL Transaction Security

Oct 2015 - Mar 2018

UL TS division guides companies within the mobile, payments and transit domains through the complex world of electronic transactions. I was a LAMP stack developer and PCI assessor for payment applications.