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.

https://blog.gitguardian.com/bsides-seattle-2025/

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A pain in the SaaS: Scalable Detection in the Age of Data Sprawl
Alan Braithwaite

Interesting realization at #bsidesseattle. A large proportion of the speakers are from populations that are minorities in infosec (yay!). This year I noticed I unintentionally mostly picked talks done by women. I wonder if they’ve picked or marketed their topics in a way that resonates somehow because of my gender? 🤔

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What Your Exposed APIs Are Leaking
Tristan Kalos

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Unpacking Session ID Security: Entropy, Encoding, and Math (Oh My!)
Jake Karnes

The Day After 'Day One': A Security Leader's Guide to Surviving M&A Without Day Drinking
Hilary Young

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Human Fingerprints: Building Better Tabletop Exercises with Realistic Adversary Tradecraft
Chloe Tucker

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“If you’re in your comfort zone, you’re in the wrong role.”

“Lean into things that scare you - that’s how you grow.”
— @leisures

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Quantum Computing: The Coming Revolution in Security and Cryptography
Shalini Menon

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Really good talk from Heather Flanagan on a subject near to my heart:
Beyond Humans: The Event Horizon for Identity & Access Management

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Hardening GitHub Actions: Protecting your pipeline from attackers
Magno Logan

Learn the difference between helping and being “helpy”

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

— @wendynather

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I can’t believe @wendynather won’t let us scold soooooo disappointing! 😉#BSidesSeattle

On awareness training: “We’re trying to install blocklists in the poetry generating custard between our ears.” @wendynather #bsidesseattle

“At the state agency, we were sourcing our spare parts from eBay, because that’s how old the hardware is” — I remember the same thing at a bank you’ve used: ebaying parts for the Pyramid mainframe.

(Quote from @wendynather ) #BSidesSeattle

More than enough bear to go around. —-@wendynather #BSidesSeattle

I am very glad to be here for the day 2 Keynote at #BSidesSeattle from the legendary Wendy Nather

Falling Off the Edge, And How to Help

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Back for another round of cyber shenanigans and sticker distribution @bsidesseattle 🕵️‍♀️💃

Yesterday was a whirlwind of honeypot chats, hugs, and posing for photos like the true feathered icon I am. Today? More ops, more ops, more ops.

I’m sneaking into hallway conversations, and making sure the flamingo representation at security conferences remains fabulous and functional.

If you see me flapping around, come say hi—I still have a few flamingo stickers left and possibly some terrible security puns.

#BSidesSeattle #SashaTheHackingFlamingo #FeathersAndFirewalls @rnbwkat

End of Day1 at #BSidesSeattle

How Attackers (or Red Teamers) navigate Azure using Key Vault Lateral Movement

Christiano Bianchet

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Picked up some #ProgrammerSocks at #BsidesSeattle

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