Jenn Gile
Co-Founder, OpenSourceMalware.com
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Jenn Gile is a community builder and tech educator in the Security and DevOps fields. She's Co-Founder of OpenSourceMalware.com, on staff with BSides Seattle, and is an advisor at Endor Labs. Jenn previously worked at NGINX, F5, and the U.S. Department of State. Outside of work, she's deeply involved in the cycling community as a board member for 2nd Cycle.
Area of Expertise
npm Account Takeovers: Preventing the next Shai-Hulud
Account takeovers - the compromise of legitimate OSS packages - were a big trend in 2025. In this talk, we look at why the npm ecosystem is a target for malware, what we can learn from several campaigns, the viability of npm security measures, and what OSS consumers can do to protect themselves.
How to sell your soul, err, your security program
Security has a branding problem. We’re the “department of no,” the cost center, the team leadership side-eyes when budgets get tight. But here’s the thing—it doesn’t have to be that way.
If you’d like to get better at selling your program, there’s a lot to learn from what might sound like an unlikely source: Marketing. It’s a marketer’s job to sell the business, and the best marketers do it by deeply understanding buyers — from hopes to woes — and then designing programs around appealing to their needs. But that’s not all; they also have to show that marketing is money well spent. In this session, we’ll cover how you can use marketing skills to change the way your security program is perceived, to get more buy-in for security initiatives, challenge your own assumptions and prioritize more effectively. It’s time to start selling security like it’s the hottest product in town!
You’ll learn how to:
- Understand your stakeholders like a marketer.
- Craft messages that make people care.
- Align security with the metrics that matter.
How to sell your soul, err, your security program
Learn how you can use marketing skills to change the way your security program is perceived, to get more buy-in for security initiatives, challenge your own assumptions, and prioritize more effectively. It’s time to start selling security like it’s the hottest product in town!
BSidesSF 2026 Sessionize Event
BSides Seattle 2026 Sessionize Event
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