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title: 'Product Security'
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date: '2026-06-26'
description: 'Product Security The following resources are highly recommended to all product security professionals. Discussions OWASP Slack Newsletters TL;DR Sec Feisty Duck Cryptography & Security Python Weekly Conferences FIRST Usenix OWASP Global AppSec EU/USA Sec-T Software Architecture Enginee…'
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# Product Security

The following resources are highly recommended to all product security professionals.

## Discussions

- [OWASP Slack](https://owasp.slack.com/messages/)

## Newsletters

- [TL;DR Sec](https://tldrsec.com/)
- [Feisty Duck Cryptography & Security](https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/)
- [Python Weekly](https://www.pythonweekly.com)

## Conferences

- [FIRST](https://www.first.org/resources/papers/)
- [Usenix](https://www.usenix.org/conferences/past)
- [OWASP Global AppSec EU/USA](https://owasp.org/events/#Global)
- [Sec-T](https://sec-t.org)

## Software Architecture

- Engineering secure devices (no starch press)
- [Do developers update their library dependencies?](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.04621)
- [Secure By Design at Google](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/pubtools/7661.pdf)
- [Why Don't Developers Detect Improper Input Validation?'; DROP TABLE Papers; --](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06251)
- [An SRE guide to Linux Kernel upgrades](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/srecon23apac_slides-korchagin.pdf)

## Threat Modeling

- Threat modeling - designing for security (wiley)
- Threat modeling (O'reilly)
- [“Threat modeling is very formal, it’s very technical, and also very hard to do correctly”: Investigating Threat Modeling Practices in Open-Source Software Projects](https://teamusec.de/pdf/conf-usenix-kaur25.pdf)

## Cryptography

- Serious cryptography (no starch press)
- Real-World cryptography (manning)
- Secret key cryptography (manning)

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