Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Breda, Netherlands Joined on Aug 16, 2019 https://brianvermeer.nl

Education

MSc Computer Science at Utrecht University

Work

Staff Developer Advocate / Software Engineer at Snyk

Snyk

DevSecCon

Still struggling with JavaScript ;)

Java, Haskell, Kotlin, HTML and a bit of Python

NLJUG, VritualJUG

Speaking engagements, conferences, meetups, podcasts, panel discussion etc.

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Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 24 '20

How 4 lines of Java code end up in 518772 lines in production.

#java #security #codequality

3 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Mar 9

Mitigating path traversal vulns in Java with Snyk Code

#java #security #snyk #codequality

5 min read

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Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Dec 20 '22

Exploring the Spring Security authorization bypass (CVE-2022-31692)

#java #security #opensource

5 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Dec 14 '22

Unsafe deserialization vulnerability in SnakeYaml (CVE-2022-1471)

#java #opensource #vulnerabilities #security

5 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Nov 1 '22

How to create SBOMs in Java with Maven and Gradle

#applicationsecurity #java #security

8 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Oct 19 '22

Reviewing CVE-2022-42889: The arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Apache Commons Text (Text4Shell)

#java #security #vulnerabilities

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Oct 11 '22

How to use Java DTOs to stay secure

#java #security #engineering

6 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Sep 2 '22

Best practices for managing Java dependencies

#applicationsecurity #opensource #java #security

8 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Aug 23 '22

What is a reverse shell attack?!

#security #java #node #python

6 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Jul 14 '22

User Office Hours: Using the Snyk CLI for Static Code Analysis

#snyk #security #officehours

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Jul 5 '22

Deserialization exploits in Java: why should I care?

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Jun 29 '22

Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions

#security #devops #java #github

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Jun 24 '22

User Office Hours: Building secure application in VS Code with Snyk

#snyk #security #officehours

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Mar 24 '22

User Office Hours: Building a Secure CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions and Snyk

#snyk #security #officehours

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Feb 21 '22

User Office Hours: Introduction to Snyk Code

#snyk #officehours #security

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Feb 18 '22

Win free swag by fixing security vulnerabilities

#security #devops #cybersecurity #devlive

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Jan 4 '22

Java JSON deserialization problems with the Jackson ObjectMapper

#java #json #security

5 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Nov 23 '21

New Java 17 features for improved security and serialization

#java #security #tutorial

6 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Jun 21 '21

JVM Ecosystem Report 2021

#java #jvm #kotlin #groovy

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Apr 8 '21

Preventing YAML parsing issues in Java

#java #yaml #security

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Apr 6 '21

SQL injection cheat sheet

#security #sql

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Feb 19 '21

Java ecosystem survey 2021: We need your input

#java #jvm #survey #2021

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Jan 12 '21

Java XML External Entity Injection - Explained and Solved

#java #security #xml

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Dec 23 '20

Git checkout remote branch: how it works and when to use it

#git #tutorial #beginners

3 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Dec 4 '20

[Podcast] Barcoding podcast - Episode 13: Security

#podcast #security #java

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Nov 5 '20

[Video] Security scanning within Gradle

#java #android #security

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Oct 29 '20

JHipster security scanning

#java #javascript #security

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Sep 29 '20

Fixing vulnerabilities in Maven projects

#java #security

5 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Sep 18 '20

Java 25 years — aging like fine wine or more like milk?

#java #productivity #codequality

4 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Sep 11 '20

Exception Handling in Java Streams

#java #codequality

8 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Sep 2 '20

5 tips to improve your Docker security

#docker #security

5 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 18 '20

Secure code review: Bonus - Who reviews the code?

#security #codequality #codenewbie

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 17 '20

Secure code review: Part 8 - Statically testing

#security #codequality #codenewbie

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 16 '20

Secure code review: Part 7 - Well-known attacks

#security #codequality #codenewbie

3 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 15 '20

Secure code review: Part 6 - Handling sensitive data

#security #codequality #codenewbie

3 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 14 '20

Secure code review: Part 5 - Least privilege principle

#security #codequality #codenewbie

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 13 '20

Secure code review: Part 4 - Enforce secure authentication

#security #codequality #codenewbie

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 12 '20

Secure code review: Part 3 - Test for vulnerabilities introduced by dependencies

#security #codequality #codenewbie

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 11 '20

How is your sticker game in 2020 💻

#discuss #stickers

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 11 '20

Secure code review: Part 2 - Never store secrets as code

#security #codequality #codenewbie

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 10 '20

📣 [Feedback asked] Calling all JS developers using VS Code

#vscode #javascript #node

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 10 '20

Secure code review: Part 1 - Sanitize and validate all input

#security #codequality #codenewbie

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 5 '20

Eclipse Collections now supports Triples

#showdev #java #news #eclipsecollections

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Jul 24 '20

Live Vulnerability spotting in VSCode

#security #vscode #javascript #devsecops

1 min read

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Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Jul 23 '20

Live Exploiting Your Open Source Dependencies with Brian Vermeer

#codeland #security #opensource

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

May 8 '20

Summing a List of numbers in Java

#java #beginners

4 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Apr 7 '20

Effortlessly finding vulnerabilities in npm packages with VS Code

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Apr 2 '20

Challenge

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for DevSecCon

Mar 16 '20

The perils of configuration security

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for Snyk

Feb 27 '20

Kotlin becomes the 2nd most popular language on the JVM

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for DevSecCon

Feb 26 '20

How to implement DevSecOps across the entire organisation

#security #devops

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻 for DevSecCon

Feb 26 '20

Web Application Firewall - Friend of your DevOps pipeline?

#security #webdev

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Feb 12 '20

What are your favorite Software Development tools ?

#productivity #devlive

1 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Dec 24 '19

Use strong encryption and hashing algorithms in Java

#java #security #encryption #hashing

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Dec 14 '19

Avoid Java serialization

#java #security #serialization

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Dec 12 '19

Configure your Java XML-parsers to prevent XXE

#java #security #xml #xxe

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Sep 21 '19

10 Java security best practices

#java #security

6 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 26 '19

Jackson Deserialization Vulnerability

#java #security

2 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 19 '19

Optional .... what else?

#java #functional #codenewbie

3 min read

Brian Vermeer 🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍💻

Aug 16 '19

10 Eclipse plugins you shouldn’t code without

#eclipse #java #productivity #plugin

4 min read

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