OWASP Ottawa March 2023: Building Security Champions with Tanya Janca

Welcome to our in Person Meetup at the University of Ottawa

In-Person Location:
150 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa,
University of Ottawa
Room 117

Health Notice:
Based on the Ottawa Public Health Guidelines we strongly recommend that attendees wear a mask while not presenting. This will reduce the risk of transmission and protect members who may have compromised immune systems.

Live Stream:
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YouTube Live Stream Link:
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6:00 PM EDT Arrival, setup, mingle
6:30 PM EDT Technical Talks

Building Security Champions: How to make a security champions program work.
Abstract:
With security teams being vastly outnumbered many organizations have responded to this challenge with different program scaling methods, including building security champions programs. Which leads us to questions; How does a security champions program work? How do you select your champions? And once you have them, what do you DO with them?

Recipe for success; recruit, engage, teach, recognize, reward, don’t stop.

Speaker Bio:
Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning community that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty five years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from public service to tech giants, writing software, leading communities, founding companies and ‘securing all the things’. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & podcaster and has delivered hundreds of talks on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion, and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.

Advisor: Nord VPN, Cloud Defense, Aiya Corp
Faculty: IANs Research
Founder: We Hack Purple, OWASP DevSlop, #CyberMentoringMonday, WoSEC