Security Champion Worst Practices – My Slides from Barcelona

Tanya on stage

Thank you very much to everyone who came to my talk at OWASP Global AppSec in Barcelona! It was so lovely to have the chance to speak to so many of you, and to share our experiences around security champion programs — especially the ways they can go wrong, and how to avoid those situations.…

Trip Report: OWASP AppSec PNW

June 15 & 16th, 2024, I was in beautiful Vancouver Canada with my colleagues Amanda McCarvill and Brandan Wu for the annual, local, moving conference that spreads the Pacific North West to give a talk, but it turned into so much more: OWASP AppSec PNW! The night before was the speaker's dinner, where I got…

We Hack Purple Community is closing

Tanya Janca holding a giant yellow lilly

Hello folks! As you may have heard, We Hack Purple Community is closing at the end of this month. We were bought by Semgrep a year ago, and the time has come to close down. You can join the Semgrep Community, and/or my personal community, by doing any number of (free) things: Joining the Semgrep Academy …

Level Up Your AppSec Skills with Semgrep Academy!

Hey there, fellow security folks! I've got some absolutely incredible news to share with you today. Brace yourself, because I guarantee you'll be just as excited as I am. Drumroll, please... introducing Semgrep Academy! Are you ready to learn all things application security, secure coding, API security, static analysis, and maybe even some functional programming?…

Trip Report – ThreatModCon and OWASP Global AppSec 2023

Tanya at ThreatModCon

On Oct 29th, 2023, was the very first edition of “ThreatModCon”, a conference dedicated entirely to threat modelling. On the 30th and 31st was “OWASP Global AppSec”, a conference by the OWASP Foundation, dedicated entirely to application security. On November 1st and 2nd, I helped Adam Shostack deliver his 2-day intensive threat modelling training. This…