Chris Beckman
Principal security engineer at Taxbit
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Chris Beckman is a Principal Security Engineer. When not working, he enjoys photography, local bakeries, and making weird stuff with Raspberry Pi’s. He lives in Seattle with his spouse and their dog Toast.
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Applying the Hybrid Threat Modeling Method
Threat modeling can help you secure your system or application. It may sound complicated, but it's actually a blast. Let's learn to threat model together with the Hybrid Threat Modeling Method!
Attacking AI systems
AI is everywhere. From help bots to logistics systems to your car, it seems like every software company wants every new feature they release to include AI. But how do we keep it secure? In this session, we will discuss new software vulnerabilities specific to AI systems.
Considering cloud coverage in SIEM/XDR design
Many companies implement a SIEM or XDR product in order to meet their CIS8, NIST cybersecurity framework, ISO27001, or other compliance requirements. They may even hire a SOC team through a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) product to watch and respond to the alerting 24/7/365.
However, are they really monitoring everything necessary to detect a security incident? This presentation will consider at an architecture level the importance of system coverage in the effectiveness of the SEIM/XDR, in particular when covering cloud infrastructure. We’ll also look at what a SOC team would really see during an incident.
This will be a vendor-agnostic presentation.
Building an auto-updating, containerized, self-hosted identity aware reverse proxy
Securing applications on the internet is genuinely difficult. Special proxies called identity aware reverse proxies let us easily secure applications that would otherwise never be safe to run online. Let's look at how to do this with open source software!
Security usability: more important than your control
When most people think of information security, they don’t think happy thoughts. Losing those fifty tabs because you have to update your web browser (ack). Finding your phone so you can pass MFA to get to the thing you need to do (eep). Complexity added to a development project by a secrets management system, or a secure access system that errors out during the response to a critical outage (yikes). When we’re securing systems, we must consider the human using them.
We all want a future where security is achieved in a frictionless way and is easy but effective. Let’s talk about how to get there!
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