Agile Reading | "Agile Product Security" with Jeff Watkins and Lianne Potter

Agile Reading | " Agile Product Security" with Jeff Watkins and Lianne Potter

Talk overview

Security is often seen as the gatekeeper team, the final boss you must overcome. As a topic it can also be seen as quite technical with scary terms like threat modelling.

But it doesn't need to be that way; we can collaborate!

So let's learn how we can embrace the power of Lean Agile and a Shift Left mentality to make security as inclusive and painless as possible.

About the Speakers

Jeff Watkins

Jeff is Chief Product and Technology Officer for xDesign.

He is a lifelong technologist with nearly 25 years’ experience in the industry, first having started coding at age 6. Having worked in the Financial Services, Healthcare and Retail industries, on enterprise and national scale programmes.

Over the years he has become increasingly interested in Cybersecurity and AI and how both will shape our future, both technologically and the human impact.

Jeff has founded multiple CyberSecurity teams and is currently working on several new pieces around the secure development and deployment of Generative AI based solutions.

He is a tech blogger, writer, podcaster and public speaker, having recently keynote at the Webinale international web conference in Berlin.

Lianne Potter

Lianne is the Head of SecOps for the largest greenfield technology transformation project in Europe, Lianne is building a leading edge security team from scratch to meet the needs of a modern retail organisation while empowering her team to think innovatively to create new standards in best practices.

Lianne has delivered talks across the globe to share her vision for a new type of security function. Drawing upon her expertise as a cyber-anthropologist (through her consultancy, The Anthrosecurist), 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.

She is on the advisory board for two community enterprises aimed at encouraging diversity in tech, is a published author, podcast regular, and recently won Computing.com’s Security Specialist of the Year for her work on human-centric approaches to security. In 2021 she won two other awards for Security Leaders of the Year 2021 and Woman of the Year in the Enterprise category.

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Schedule

17.45: Icebreaker

18.00: Intro

18.10: "Agile Product Security" with Jeff Watkins + Lianne Potter

19.10: Q&A

19:30: Close

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We look forward to seeing you there!

Adam and Stu

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