Welcome to another episode of Tom's Tech Notes! As per usual, DZone's research analyst Tom Smith has interviewed a host of industry experts to see what they have to say about data and application security.

This podcast is in preparation for our upcoming AppSec Trend Report. Our Trend Reports will be replacing DZone's traditional research guides. The main changes? Trend Reports will be released more frequently and be more focused on narrower topics. You'll still get the same high-quality expert articles and cutting edge research and analysis.

So, without further ado, here's what you need to know about application security.

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Today's interviewees are:

• Vincent Lussenberg (Director of DevOps Strategy, XebiaLabs)

• OJ Ngo (CTO, DH2i)

• Cliff Duffey (President, Cybera)

• Chuck Yoo (President, Resecurity)

• Gary Watson (CTO and Founder, Nexsan)

• Igor Baikalov (Chief Scientist, Securonix)

• Jim Souders (CEO, Adaptiva)

• Syed Abdur (Director of Product Management and Design, Brinqa)

• Tim Brown (V.P. of Security Architecture, SolarWinds)