Talks by Shortridge

If you are interested in inviting me to your speaking event, please reach out via the contact form below. This page is a list of my future and prior public speaking engagements, including slides, video, and fulltext links when available.

Upcoming Talks

    • ~* A mystery, for now *~

      Abstract

      Craft Conf 2024 | Budapest, Hungary

      May 30 - 31, 2024

Prior Talks

  • A Love Letter to Isolation

    SlidesVideo

    Cloud Native Wasm Day 2023 | Chicago, USA

    November 6, 2023 - 10:30 CST (UTC -6)

  • Continuous Resilience: Extending DevOps Practices for Systems Resilience

    Slides

    All Day DevOps 2023 | The Internet

    October 26, 2023

  • Watering the Roots of Resilience—Learning from Failure with Decision Trees

    Schedule

    O'Reilly Security Superstream: DevSecOps | The Internet

    October 18, 2023 - 11:05 ET (15:05 UTC/GMT)

  • Lightning Talk: Secure by Design

    Event Site

    Fastly Altitude 2023 | NYC & The Internet

    September 26, 2023

  • Fast, Ever-Evolving Defenders: The Resilience Revolution

    Slides

    Black Hat USA 2023 | Las Vegas

    August 9, 2023

  • Keynote | Practical Magic: the Resilience Potion and Security Chaos Engineering

    Video

    GOTO Chicago 2023 | Chicago, IL

    May 24, 2023

  • Watering the Roots of Resilience: Learning from Failure with Decision Trees

    Slides & Video

    SREcon Americas | Santa Clara, CA

    March 21, 2023

  • The Very Hungry Defender: Metamorphosing Security {Decision-Making} by Incorporating Opportunity Cost

    Slides & Video

    USENIX Enigma | Santa Clara, CA

    January 26, 2023

  • From Lemons to Peaches: Improving Security ROI through Security Chaos Engineering

    Paper

    IEEE Secure Development (SecDev) Conference | Atlanta, GA

    October 18 - 20, 2022

  • Lamboozling Attackers

    Slides

    Summercon 2022 | NYC

    July 9, 2022

  • How Behavioral Economics Can Help Make Better Security Decisions

    Video

    RSAC 2022 | San Francisco, CA

    June 7, 2022

  • Signature Keynote | Mitigating Information Overflows in the FOMOsec Era

    FS-ISAC FinCyber Today 2021 | The Internet

    November 3, 2021

  • The Scientific Method: Security Chaos Experimentation & Attacker Math

    Video

    RSA Conference 2021 | The Internet

    May 18, 2021 | 10:05 PT

  • Keynote | The Human in the Shell

    Video

    Elevate Security live 2021 | The Internet

    May 11, 2021

  • From Catastrophe to Chaos in Production

    Slides

    GOTOpia Chaos Engineering Day 2021 | The Internet

    February 18, 2021

  • Keynote | Exit Stage Left: Eradicating Security Theater

    Slides | Video

    SnykCon 2020 | The Internet

    October 21, 2020

  • To Err is Human: The Complexity of Security Failures

    Slides

    2020 DC Chaos Engineering Event | The Internet

    April 21, 2020

  • Keynote | The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security

    Slides | Video

    S4x20 | Miami, Florida

    January 23, 2020

  • Keynote | Controlled Chaos: The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security

    Slides | Video Snippet

    Velocity | Berlin, Germany

    November 7, 2019

  • Keynote | To Err is Human: The Complexity of Security Failures

    Slides | Video

    Hacktivity | Budapest, Hungary

    October 26, 2019

  • Entering the Cave: Conquering Security Fears of Modern Infrastructure

    CISO Forum 2019 | Half Moon Bay, CA

    September 25, 2019

  • Controlled Chaos: The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security

    Slides

    Black Hat USA | Las Vegas, NV

    August 7, 2019

  • Security Delusions

    Slides

    QCon NYC | New York, NY

    June 26, 2019

  • Keynote: On Resilience in Infosec

    ISACA New York Metropolitan Chapter's Spring Membership Meeting | New York, NY

    April 11, 2019

  • Why Defense is Hard

    NYPD Cyber Intelligence and Counterterrorism Conference | New York, NY

    March 19, 2019

  • Risk Quicksand in Information Security

    Slides

    Art into Science: A Conference on Defense | Round Rock, TX

    January 30, 2019

  • Paint by Numbers: Measuring Resilience in Security

    Slides

    Square R00t | NYC

    November 14, 2018

  • Paint by Numbers: Measuring Resilience in Security

    Slides | Video

    DuraznoConf | Durazno, Uruguay

    October 4, 2018

  • Paint by Numbers: Resilience in Security

    Slides | Video

    AusCERT | Gold Coast, Australia

    May 31, 2018

  • Keynote: Security as Product

    Full Text | Video

    BSides Knoxville | Knoxville, TN

    May 18, 2018

  • #womenterprise Sector Series: Security

    NY Enterprise Technology Meetup | NYC

    May 16, 2018

  • Panel: AI in Security, Gaps Between Theory and Practice. Demonstrating Value to Customers

    USENIX Security & AI Networking Conference (ScAINet '18) | Atlanta, GA

    May 11, 2018

  • Threat Prioritization: Freeing the White Whale

    Slides

    HackNYC | NYC

    May 8, 2018

  • Practical Magic: Behavior-based Security Design for IoT

    Slides

    Troopers | Heidelberg, Germany

    March 12, 2018

  • Why Defense is Hard

    NYPD Cyber Intelligence & Counterterrorism Conference 2018 | NYC

    February 13, 2018

  • A Dangerous Folly: Why Individual Attack Prediction Can’t Be Our Goal

    Slides

    Art into Science | Austin, TX

    January 30, 2018

  • Return Oriented: 2017 InfoSec Market Recap

    BSidesNYC | NYC

    January 20, 2018

  • Defensive Exploitation: How to Pwn Your Attacker's Decision-making

    Slides

    ZeroNights | Moscow, Russian Federation

    November 17, 2017

  • Closing Keynote: The Red Pill of Resilience

    Video | Slides | Full Text

    Countermeasure 2017 | Ottawa, Canada

    November 10, 2017

  • Big Game Theory Hunting: The Peculiarities of Human Behavior in the InfoSec Game

    Slides

    BSides PDX | Portland, OR

    October 21, 2017

  • Opening Keynote: The Red Pill of Resilience

    Slides

    Rochester Security Summit | Rochester, NY

    October 19, 2017

  • Big Game Theory Hunting: The Peculiarities of Human Behavior in the InfoSec Game

    Slides

    BlackHat USA | Las Vegas, NV

    July 26, 2017

  • Disrupting the attack lifecycle: how do attackers behave?

    Slides sans gifs :'(

    RiskSec | New York, NY

    May 2, 2017

  • Volatile Memory: Behavioral Game Theory in Defensive Security

    Video | Slides

    Troopers | Heidelberg, Germany

    March 23, 2017

  • Know Thyself: Optimizing Team Decision Making

    Slides

    Art into Science: A Conference for Defense | Austin, TX

    January 26, 2017

  • Privacy vs. Security: A False Tradeoff?

    Webinar

    BrightTalk Privacy vs. Security Summit | The Internet

    October 2016

  • Duo Tech Talk

    Video | Slides

    DuoSecurity Tech Talks | Ann Arbor, MI

    November 11, 2016

  • The Art of Explanation: Behavioral Models of Infosec

    Video | Slides

    Hacktivity | Budapest, Hungary

    October 21, 2016

  • Behavioral Models of Infosec: Industry irrationality & what to do about it

    Slides

    NCC Open Forum | NYC

    August 2016

  • DIY Education in Cyber Security

    Slides

    NYU Poly's Career Discovery in Cyber Security: A Women's Symposium | NYC

    July 2015

  • Cyber Education: Your Options & Resources Mapped Out

    Slides

    NYU Poly's Career Discovery in Cyber Security: A Women's Symposium | NYC

    October 2014

  • You've Been Hacked — IP Security in the Digital Domain

    ipCG Thought Leadership Conference | Stowe, VT

    November 2013