Over the last three years, Silver Bullet listeners and sc-l subscribers have occasionally asked Gary McGraw to interview more "practitioners." Instead of changing the mission of Silver Bullet, he decided to create a new podcast and focus it exclusively on practical software security. That means balancing out the hope for a silver bullet with a reality check!

Reality Check will be a monthly podcast just like Silver Bullet. Releases of the two sister ‘casts will alternate and appear every two weeks or so. Reality Check targets experienced leaders working to solve software security problems in large organizations every day. He uses a standard script to guide each conversation with questions about history, methodology, best practice, and measurement. He plans to interview leaders of mature software security programs and leaders of programs just getting started.

The first interview is Steve Lipner (Senior Director of security engineering strategy in Microsoft ’s Trustworthy Computing Group).

Listen at http://www.cigital.com/realitycheck/