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Application & Cloud Security Podcasts

5 shows and 2,578 episodes sit under Application & Cloud Security.

The best application and cloud security podcasts in 2026: secure design, DevSecOps, supply chain risk, API security, cloud posture, and AI-assisted code review

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A field guide

What Application & Cloud Security podcasts actually cover

The useful conversations begin where software design meets operational reality: permissions, dependencies, mobile clients, cloud visibility, and the awkward question of who owns the risk after deployment. Some episodes stay close to code. Others follow an application outward into networks, vendors, and executive decisions.

For the wider field, move up to Cybersecurity. Penetration Testing follows the people actively probing defenses, while Threat Intelligence & News tracks campaigns and emerging incidents. For training and professional development, prefer the Security Careers & Learning page.

Secure design before cleanup

Application Security Weekly (Audio) is the sharpest starting point for software teams. Its agenda reaches from In Search of Secure Design - ASW #325 to Avoiding Appsec's Worst Practices - ASW #324, with little patience for treating security as a final release gate.

The show also keeps pace with newer engineering problems. AppSec News Roundup on Claude Code Leak, Axios NPM Compromise, Secure Design - Idan Plotnik, Raj Mallempati - ASW #377 places AI tooling, package compromise, and design in the same briefing. For a standards-oriented entry, choose Securing Software's Journey with the OWASP SPVS - Ido Geffen, Rohan Ravindranath, Cameron W., Farshad Abasi - ASW #378.

Beyond the repository

Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio) widens the frame without losing the technical thread. Defense-in-depth strategies for securing mobile applications - Ryan Lloyd - ASW #390 is the direct mobile-security route; Cloud Visibility, Fortibleed, hacking things the easy way - Sandy Bird - PSW #932 points toward cloud operations and exposed infrastructure.

Fortinet Cybersecurity Podcast takes a more measured, business-facing approach. Its question-led interviews translate specialist language for listeners who need consequences and decisions made clear. Fortinet ON AIR S1EP1 - Building Simplicity, Security, and Scale into the Future of Networking suits that audience, while Fortinet ON AIR S1EP3 - GenAI Isn't Just a Tool-It's a New Attack Surface brings AI into the security boundary.

When software risk reaches the boardroom

Supply-chain failures receive an executive treatment on CISO Insights: Voices in Cybersecurity. Start with The Digital Siege: Supply Chain Poisoning and the New Era of Cyber Warfare or the more pointed The Illusion of Trust: Fake Compliance and the LiteLLM Hack.

Redefining CyberSecurity sits nearby, especially when AI workflows blur the line between application behavior and organizational risk. Task by Task: The Workflows We're Handing to AI - One Decision at a Time | Lens Four by Sean Martin | Read by TAPE9 makes the route explicit.

Where to start

Developers should begin with Application Security Weekly (Audio) and its secure-design episodes. Choose Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio) for mobile and cloud attack surface, or Fortinet Cybersecurity Podcast when the discussion needs to travel cleanly from technical teams to leadership. For supply-chain risk in executive language, try CISO Insights: Voices in Cybersecurity.

Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.

Recommended clips

The strongest Application & Cloud Security clips

The highest-scoring 60-second moments anywhere in application & cloud security, one per show.

Frequency matters: the case for scanning early and often, part 1
A Hard Look at Software Security · 2020-01-23
Season 2! Interviewing Tanya Janca, Author of Alice and Bob Learn Application Security
Heroes of IT · 2020-11-09
CyberBites Chat - Eric Wassenaar w/Veracode
CyberBites Podcast · 2020-04-26
OWASP Top 10 2025 Edition - The 443 Podcast - Episode 350
The 443 - Security Simplified · 2025-11-24
ep2024-07 Safety belts for AppSec with Lisa Plaggemier
The OWASP Podcast Series · 2024-07-12
Episode 64 - Fireside Chat with Tanya Janca
Purple Squad Security · 2019-11-03
It's All Working - Application Security Weekly #20
Application Security Weekly (Audio) · 2018-06-20
Fighting the Water Hackers - #193
Reimagining Cyber - real world perspectives on cybersecurity · 2026-03-18
From Individual Contributor to Leader
Cybersecurity Growth · 2025-12-23
Stop Making These App Security Mistakes! | A Masterclass in App Security with Laurențiu Spilcă
Flying High with Flutter · 2025-07-09

Drawn from 84 playable clips across 5 shows.

New on PlayNext

Just added to Application & Cloud Security

The newest application & cloud security clips in the library, one per show — ordered by when the clip was made, not when the episode came out.

Don't ignore application security | Salted Hash Ep 35
Salted Hash · added 2026-09-04
Episode 069 - Does Open-Source AI Create a False Sense of Security? - Suryaprakash Nalluri
Agent of Influence · added 2026-09-04
Brass Tacks S1E03 - Exploring Software Supply Chain Security: Debunking GenAI and LLMs Hype
Fortinet Cybersecurity Podcast · added 2026-08-31
It's All Working - Application Security Weekly #20
Application Security Weekly (Audio) · added 2026-08-31
Malicious geopolitical cyber activity, cyberattacks tied to conflict in Iran, open source supply chain attack & AI autonomous espionage / Intel Chat [#306]
The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast · added 2026-08-24
Securing Software's Journey with the OWASP SPVS - Ido Geffen, Rohan Ravindranath, Cameron W., Farshad Abasi - ASW #378
Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio) · added 2026-08-19
Stop Making These App Security Mistakes! | A Masterclass in App Security with Laurențiu Spilcă
Flying High with Flutter · added 2026-08-10
SecTools Podcast E53 with Praveen Kanniah
SecTools Podcast Series · added 2026-08-10
Github Actions Supply Chain Attacks
The 443 - Security Simplified · added 2026-08-10
CyberBites Chat - Eric Wassenaar w/Veracode
CyberBites Podcast · added 2026-08-10

10 clips, one per show, added between 2026-08-10 and 2026-09-04.

Featured shows

5 shows, described rather than listed

Each has a short write-up and a note on what it does best here.

Where to start

4 routes in, one per reader

01Developer or security engineer reviewing code and dependenciesStarts with Application Security Weekly (Audio)

Start with 'AppSec News Roundup on Claude Code Leak, Axios NPM Compromise, Secure Design' — a live example of dependency risk and secure design in one episode.

02AppSec practitioner learning baseline vocabularyStarts with DevelopSec: Developing Security Awareness

'Ep. 77: Interactive Application Security Testing' and 'Ep. 55: Scoping an application security assessment' are plain, foundational, and durable.

03Program owner managing supply chain and cloud risk togetherStarts with CISO Insights: Voices in Cybersecurity

'Orchestrating Security: The DevSecOps Blueprint for 2025' and 'Beyond CSPM: The Cloud Security Evolution' frame the ownership question more than the technical one.

04Researcher or academic working on industrial or mobile AppSecStarts with CERIAS Weekly Security Seminar - Purdue University

'Analyzing Supply Chain Risk in Mobile Applications for Home Energy Storage Systems' and 'Dissecting the Software Supply Chain of Modern Industrial Control Systems' pull AppSec into hardware and energy contexts.

Glossary

Jargon you'll hear on Application & Cloud Security podcasts

SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)

A machine-readable inventory of software components and dependencies used in a build — increasingly required by regulators and procurement as a supply chain transparency tool.

DevSecOps

A development practice that integrates security testing, access controls, and compliance checks into the CI/CD pipeline rather than treating security as a release gate.

OWASP Top 10

A consensus list of the ten most critical web application security risks, maintained by the Open Web Application Security Project and widely used as an AppSec training and audit baseline.

CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management)

A category of tooling that continuously assesses cloud environments for misconfigurations, policy violations, and compliance gaps — designed to close the gap between provisioning speed and security review.

supply chain attack

An intrusion that compromises a target indirectly through a trusted upstream component — a compromised npm package, a poisoned CI/CD action, or a vendor with excess access.

threat modeling

A structured approach to identifying what could go wrong in a system, who might exploit it, and what mitigations are worth the cost — done at design time rather than after deployment.