SheHacksPurple: February Content

Plus several travel updates!

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Hello! I wanted to show my appreciation of all of you so I made you a little present: an error handling, logging, monitoring, and alerting cheat sheet. I hope you like it! If you know anyone else who wants one, they can download it here and also sign up for my newsletter at the same time. <hint> I’m trying to grow my newsletter.</hint>

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Also: small itinerary change, I am not going to London in March anymore, instead I am going to Denver for Snowfroc. :-D I will be back in Europe in May for NDC Oslo!

New Content!

  • I was on Episode 260 of The Security Ledger Podcast: The Art of Teaching Secure Coding with Tanya Janca

  • I was on the 'no dogma podcast' with Bryan Hogan to discuss how to write secure code. I share several tips, and Bryan and I have a GREAT time together.

  • I was on the OWASP Podcast with my dear friend Matt Tesauro, and as you might expect, there was a lot of AppSec and nerdy inside jokes.

  • Taylor Armerding interviewed me to talk to me about my 2025 predictions… Read it to hear my hot takes!

  • My talk with the legendary SCOTT HELME from #RSAC finally came out. Want to learn everything about security headers in under an hour? Watch this!

  • Want to know what the 'Top 5 security mistakes software developers make' are? Read this article by David Strom, that quotes me several times, to learn more!

  • I was on the No Password Required Podcast, again! If you remember last time, I had such a wonderful and heart-felt conversation with all 3 amazing hosts. This time we dove deep into secure coding, with tips, ideas, and gotchas!

  • I was on the Cyber Pulse Podcast with James Walsh to talk 'Alice and Bob', Secure Coding, and the cost of Cyber Crime! Want to listen? You know you do. 😉 Watch out, it may make you giggle.

Events!

  • February 27th, Women Impact Tech event, online!

  • Feb 27th, APISEC|CON, virtual, free, and all API Security!

  • March 4, 10:00 am Pacific: I’m giving my talk, ‘Using Artificial Intelligence, Safely’ as part of a free Semgrep webinar. Please join me.

  • March 12 & 13, Cloud and Security Expo, London, England Someone else from Semgrep shall take my place so that I can do another, bigger and better, European trip in May.

  • March 14th, Snowfroc OWASP conference, in Denver, Colorado, USA

  • April 28-May 1, RSAC, I’ve been invited to speak on a panel about Security Champions, and am waiting to hear if any of my talk submissions have been accepted

  • May 2025: I am currently planning for NDC Developer in Oslo, Norway and then OWASP Global AppSec in Barcelona, Spain, and am hoping to do some private trainings while I am there. If you know anyone in Europe who would like some fun, informative, easy-to-understand, funny, secure coding training, let me know! Last month I did some multiple live training events while in Europe, and it was AMAZING.

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I’m trying to ramp up my little training business, now that I have a lot more content (thanks to the book). If you know someone who’s looking for secure coding training, please suggest me. :-D

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