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Brian Vermeer

Staff Developer Advocate

Brian is well-known in the Java community. He is a Developer Advocate for Snyk, Java Champion, and Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience creating and maintaining (web)applications. He is passionate about Java, (Pure) Functional Programming, and Cybersecurity. Brian is a JUG leader for the Virtual JUG and the NLJUG. He also co-leads the DevSecCon community and is a community manager for Foojay. He is a regular international speaker at mostly Java-related conferences like JavaOne, Devnexus, Devoxx, Jfokus, JavaZone, and many more.

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Protestware by open source maintainer to hinder agentic coding: The jqwik 1.10.0 Prompt Injection

June 2, 2026

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Malicious node-ipc versions published to npm in suspected maintainer account compromise

May 15, 2026

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Don't Panic: The Thymeleaf Template Injection That Only Hurts If You Let It (CVE-2026-40478)

April 29, 2026

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Building Safer AI Agents with Structured Outputs

February 18, 2026

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Catch Vulnerabilities Early: Your Snyk MCP Cheat Sheet

December 17, 2025

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SHA1-Hulud, npm supply chain incident

November 24, 2025

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How chat memory manipulation can ruin your AI system

August 14, 2025

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Understanding Prompt Injection: Techniques, Challenges, and Risks

May 27, 2025

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Ensuring Safe and Reliable AI Interactions with LLM Guardrails

May 5, 2025

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What is RAG, and How to Secure It

April 22, 2025

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Creating SBOMs with the Snyk CLI

February 5, 2025

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The persistent threat: Why major vulnerabilities like Log4Shell and Spring4Shell remain significant

August 29, 2024