“Caring for our pen tester friends”

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Quality assurance teams are becoming more context driven and collaborative. QA Testers are now needed from design through to supporting their applications into production.Yet we still ask external security testers to test our applications engaging them at the end just before we ship to production. Often armed with very little handover we ask them “Did we built it securely?”.I see a big gap between external security testers and development teams, its making life hard for both teams. I also see the damage it does to good security testing. Its time to bring these two team closer together and start take better care of our pen tester friends.This talk covers advice for both engineering teams and their external penetration testers on collaborating more, ensuring the right context is exchanged and the teams work together for better security testing outcomes.