Unleash the engineer within: Culture eats policy for breakfast

In a world dominated by API-driven technologies where boundaries no longer exist but in certain leaders' minds, we have to rethink how we build and operate our (product) security organizations. A scaling factor to lower the attack surface is to empower our engineering workforce to adopt security by design and by default paradigms. There is work to be done on both sides of the fence, yet let's start by challenging how security is perceived and done: Unleash the engineer within, innovate, cultivate empathy and leave the old security mindset behind.

We will explore how fostering a security engineering culture, enabling strong partnerships, trust and accountability can put us on a path to better protect ourselves against pernicious classes of attacks, such as ones targeting our software supply chain or AI models.

Walking away from this session, you will gain several actionable insights to add to your own strategy, from leadership style and softer skills, key partnerships, process improvement advice and technical integration clues.

Ready to challenge yourself and the status quo?