#BSidesSeattle #BSidesSEA 2026 thoughts:
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Brian Myers' talk "Waking Up to AI: An Adventure in Governance" was fabulous. I heard him @ #BsidesPDX Oct on #British #Library #ransomware, so knew it'd be good.
The realistic, slow walk through for companies caught off guard by #AI and #LLMs - and the supply chain issues it brings up - reinforced the idea that weaknesses and strengths can be amplified by AI; leaving me wondering where are the brakes (so we can go fast).
Excellent #BSidesSeattle #BSidesSEA 2026. Unpacking a few thoughts:
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Super enjoyed "The Security Policy Rollout Survival Guide" by Maya Kaczorowski. Great talk! Wish it had been a 1 hour. She may mean something else but this is my take home:
1) who set the policy is who should enforce
2) a pilot project is actually a #decision, not #research. Treat it as such
These may not be #hot #new #information to others, but it really resonated with me. Thank you Maya! Great talk.
Haven't been on LinkedIn for a while, but #BsidesSeattle this weekend had a few people wanting to connect, so I went ahead and did so. Went on there today, and ...
...Holy hell that place is just a mess of things I don't really care about anymore. I remember the golden 5 minutes where it was an interesting intersection of what people were working on and sort of quasi-professional bloggy type material.
I tried fiddling with settings to see if I could make my feed more tolerable, but there's no "turn it into the fediverse" option. The only fun thing on it was people posting about Bsides from this weekend. đ¤Ł
I named myself the unofficial #bsidesseattle librarian this year and brought the digital side of it, spent time in there gently hosting, refilling books, and having delightful conversations with people. It was exactly the space I needed for a conference. I offered to be official next year and was starting to think of it as âthe quieter villageâ.
Pondering ideas:
- A book club discussion, with a thematic book announced with the conference theme
- Evening programming to go with the louder entertainment - possibly herbal teas and conversation prompt cards
- quiet reading hour? Though that might require a lot of signage and enforcement, which doesnât match the vibe
Kind of a funny thing though - I wouldnât want to over-program it, because part of its charm was the fluctuating between âlively but cozy coffee shopâ and âcrypt quietâ throughout the day.
Huge shoutout to @Wham for the space and working with Adaâs to stock it with awesome tech, queer, and subversive books.
I have been remiss in having forgotten to mention that Da Boss, Daniel Schwalbe, will be speaking tomorrow at BSides Seattle! Go see him work his magic.
Bonus points if you ask him what the "F" in "DFS" stands for.
If youâre at #bsidesseattle Friday or Saturday, check out the lovely (and quiet!) free library full of a delightful selection of Adaâs bookstore books. Thereâs fiction, how to, and security classics there. Find a book you love? Take it with you for free!
There is ALSO a digital #WeeFreeCommunityLibrary chock full of CC and public domain comics, right to repair content, security texts and zines, and mental health support. All these can be downloaded for free.
Find the library in the small room across from the tshirt desk. Itâs a soothing and calm room, even if youâre not a reader.
Apparently, I made all the arrangements to attend #BSidesSeattle except for buying the tickets. Bummed! But I have a lot of work to do today anyway. See y'all next year!
At the end of her talk, Emily Choi Greene mentions running an ai tm twice, one as low temp one at high, and using the high temp run to drive a conversation about possibilities. #bsidesseattle
I have done some scouting at the speaker reception and Iâm here to report â as a person who literally has a talk thatâs âI AM INTROVERTâ â that the other speakers for #BsidesSeattle are an absolute delight.
(Hi, @sphcow!)
Tomorrow at 1PM at BSidesSeattle, come see:
Cloud Misconfigurations: Oh look something fluffy, poke poke poke
(also known as: Permission Granted: How Misconfiguration Became the Breach)
Yes, it starts fluffy.
No, it does not stay fluffy.
Iâll talk about:
- Why most cloud âbreachesâ donât require elite attackers
- The Top 10 Ways We Grant Permission
- The Toxic Trilogy in the wild
- And how Policy as Code turns âplease donâtâ into ânot allowedâ
If youâve ever opened a security group âjust temporarilyââŚ
This talk is about you!!
1PM. Post-lunch. Bring your coffee. @sashatheflamingo will bring the tequila!!
#CyberSecurity #CloudSecurity #BSidesSeattle #infosec
Iâm also bringing a #Bsides themed #WeeFreeCommunityLibrary, packed full of Creative Commons security content, xkcd comics, and Carrot & Pepper goodness. With a little sprinkle of mental health support, right-to-repair education, and âsecurity for allâ info. It will hopefully be up and going in the larger free library area.
Oh hey, I'm excited to do this talk at Bsides 2026, Feb 28th at 10:30am! Now I need to actually get on ironing out the kinks in it... #BsidesSeattle #BsidesSeattle2026
It's the last week of the #BSidesSeattle CFP. Get your submissions in by Friday so we have something to do over Thanksgiving weekend while the Macy's parade plays in the background.
@captainbara that's a yes over here, I'm going. LOL on the decryptid!
I've been to #bsidesSeattle but never #Bsidespdx, looking forward to my first time
PWN #security friends. It's that time of year again, when the weather gets cozy and BSides Seattle asks you for your talk proposals.
CFP closes Nov 21st. Give us something better to do over thanksgiving than listen to Uncle Marvin go on about ancient aliens.
Y'all
I had such an amazing experience at #BSidesSeattle this year.
That area's tech scene feels so alive.
I wrote up some of my thoughts on the event.
A pain in the SaaS: Scalable Detection in the Age of Data Sprawl
Alan Braithwaite
Unpacking Session ID Security: Entropy, Encoding, and Math (Oh My!)
Jake Karnes
