Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

Izar Tarandach is the Senior Staff Engineer at Datadog. Before that he was Sr. Security Architect at a leading investment institution, Lead Product Security Architect at Autodesk inc., Security Architect for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud at Dell EMC, Security Consultant at the EMC Product Security Office. He is a core contributor to SAFECode and a founding contributor to the IEEE Center for Security Design. He is the co-author of “Threat Modeling: A Practical Guide For Development Teams”, O’Reilly 2020.

Leading without authority: an example from security engineering

In this talk we use the experience of a Security Engineer tasked with helping a development team raise their security posture, without being part of it. We will look at what works and what failed, propose tactic and techniques to best position the outsider in, and what observed results were achieved.

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Supporting, influencing, and leading as a security practitioner

How security folks can lead engineering teams from the sidelines