Sticks and stones, (ab)user stories, and other stories from the security team

Join us from 6 onwards for the regular informal chat, ready for a 6.15 kick off.
Please note due to the heat, this event has been moved to Tuesday 26th July 2022.

'The department of work prevention'.....

'The department of 'nope''....

Or as it is formally known, the information security team!

Cyber Anthropologist, Head of SecOps and former developer, Lianne Potter, shares her insider stories and practical advice and tips about how you can get the best out of your security team; enabling you to deliver your project on time, and on budget, and with less technical debt.

In this talk we will look at using (ab)user stories to enrich your backlog, how you can articulate shifting left to your stakeholders and development team as a quality control rather than a security control, and how mutual reciprocity might just get you a 'yes' for your next big security ask.

Lianne Potter, Cyber Anthropologist at The AnthroSecurist and Head of SecOps

Lianne is an award-winning cyber anthropologist and security transformation leader with experience in the retail, healthcare, finance, private and non-profit sectors.

Her consultancy, The AnthroSecurist, enables teams in complex organisations to understand each other's motivations, identify barriers that have prevented good security practices in the past, and provide practical steps and insights to increase collaboration between the security team and the rest of the organisation.

Lianne is also the Head of SecOps for the largest greenfield technology project in Europe where she builds strategies to create sustainable security cultures throughout the organisation.

As a respected speaker, Lianne has delivered talks across the globe to share her vision for a new type of security function. Drawing upon her expertise as an anthropologist, her practical experience as a security-focused software developer and as a security practitioner; Lianne combines the human and the technical aspects of security to evangelise a cultural security transformation.

Outside of work, she is on the advisory board for two community enterprises aimed at encouraging diversity in tech. She is a published author, podcast host, and recently won Computing.com's Security Specialist of the Year and Security Leader of the Year for her novel work on human-centric approaches to security.