Awhile back, I had a conversation with a friend that I went to school with (currently a senior member of the engineering team at a large retail chain) who was tasked with the job of identifying potential application security partners (he addressed vendors as partners, which I personally liked) that they could collaborate with on various areas as part of their product security initiative. The following piece emerged as an extension of my immediate thoughts when he shared his views of what could have made his experience of interacting with front line sales and marketing folks better.
In the context of DevSecOps, much has been said about the need for engineering to speak security, security to speak code, DevOps to speak security, etc. But, as a Technology Service Provider (TSP), riding the current wave of application security, its almost mandatory for the Sales and Marketing teams to speak relevant tech!
