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.…
Saturday April 26th 2025 through to Friday May 2nd I attended RSAC and B-Sides San Francisco, and it was amazing! Let me tell you about my trip!
I am headed to the B-Sides San Francisco and RSAC conferences in San Francisco, California, USA, from Saturday April 26th, to Friday May 2nd. I'd love a chance to meet up with you, if you will be there.
It’s been a long time since I last wrote on my personal blog, but I’ve been busy creating tons of content! I figured it’s time to share everything I’ve been working on over the past nine months—events, projects, and all. Hope you find it helpful! 😃
Black Hat to Def Con, Diana Initiative to SquadCon, invites to see Tanya all week long!
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…
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…
For those of you who are aware, every August for the past 30 years or so, hackers have been meeting in the dead heat of summer in Las Vegas Nevada to host multiple learning and community events. It started with Def Con, a conference dedicated to hackers & hacker culture, releasing exploits, and “doing stuff…
My nails and dress were matchy-matchy for my first day! Since I've been keeping this giant secret for so long, I'm very excited to finally be able to share all of my good news. This blog post is going to be all about my first week at Semgrep. We choose July 31 as my first…
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post, Hacker Summer Camp 2019, about how to stay safe at #HackerSummerCamp (Def Con + Black Hat + Diana Initiative + B-Sides + everything else that week in Vegas). I made a video to add more details, clarity and ideas on how to have more fun and…
