Laura Bell Main
Laura Bell Main is a leader in people-focused secure development for fast moving companies, with a focus on building security skills, practices, and culture across the entire engineering team.
She has spoken at a range of events such as BlackHat USA, Velocity, and OSCON on the subjects of privacy, covert communications, agile security, and security mindset.
She is the co-author of Agile Application Security and Security for Everyone.
Montreal 2023 sessions
Build Amazing Things (Securely)
English session - Beginner
We are in an age of technological revolution. The technologies that we read about in fiction and watched on tv shows as children are being built now, all around the world.
This is a time to be excited and hopeful about the benefits that technology can bring to all aspects of our lives and society but also a time to be mindful of the risks we face.
In this talk, we discuss this exciting future and how we can work together to secure it.
The Proximity Problem
English session - Beginner
Every wondered why you are eager to fix some issues and some leave you cold. Every pondered how your brain can affect the security of the software you build? Then this is the talk for you.
In this talk we will look at 4 human behaviours, the psychology behind them and how they affect our ability to protect what matters most. Finally, giving you some tactics to trick your brain and improve security on the way.
