Vibe Check: A Panel Discussion at SecTor 2025

I had the opportunity to join an incredible panel at SecTor (a Black Hat event) in Toronto alongside Chad Breslin, Brett Grady, and Ian Hassard. We dove into the world of Vibe Coding! What it is, the risks it introduces, and how to use AI to write safer, more secure code.This video shares my key…

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…

My RSAC and B-Sides SF 2023 Schedule

Big smiles from Tanya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQGZIdvy7s Hello folks! I will be speaking both B-Sides San Francisco and #RSAC this year, the last week of April 2023, in San Francisco. I would love to have a chance to meet some of you in person. If you see me, and feel comfortable, please say hello! I'm really friendly, and I will have…

OWASP Global AppSec Dublin 2023

Tanya Janca Speaking on stage

Recently I had the pleasure of being one of the keynote speakers at OWASP Global AppSec, in Dublin Ireland. In this post I’m going to give a brief overview of some of the talks I saw while I was there, and the TONS of fun I had. I didn’t get to stay very long, and…

Sharing Another Talk with the Community

Me, delivering this talk for the first time, on stage.

Three years ago I decided that I would share most of my talk content with my community (everything that I am not currently applying to conferences with). At the time, I only shared one, because.... I ran out of time. Now it's time to share the second talk, "Security is Everybody's Job!" By “share” I…