BSidesSF 2025: Full Schedule

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11:30am PDT

Mind the Gap: Career Growth and Management for Security Engineers

Sunday April 27, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm PDT

Join us as we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of career management in security engineering! Our panel of engineers and leaders will share stories about identifying opportunities, overcoming challenges, and setting yourself up for long-term success in the security industry.

Speakers

Josh Liburdi

Principal Engineer, Security Operations, DoorDash

Josh Liburdi is a security engineer at DoorDash who focuses on security operations. He has more than a decade of industry experience and has worked at several diverse organizations, including Brex, Target, and CrowdStrike. He also presents at security conferences (BSides NYC & SF... Read More →

Elle McKenna

security + IT leader, somewhere smallish :)

i’m a nonbinary person (they/them) based in oakland, ca. i’m passionate about creating shareholder value, and in my free time i like to create shareholder value. i would love it if people talked to me about creating shareholder value; ask me about business, numbers, charts!

Sarai Rosenberg

Head of Cloud Security ☁️🔒, Netflix

Sarai Rosenberg leads Netflix Clod Security. Sarai became an expert on managing people (YES IT'S WEIRD TO SAY THAT) due to her passion for equitably enabling her teams to do their best work, and her bizarre collection of special interests. As a mathematician, she's excited by untangling... Read More →

Andrew Kline

Senior Security Engineer, Brex

Andrew is a security engineer at Brex where he does D&R and cloud/infrastructure security. He started his career in security consulting, primarily at Crypsis/Unit 42 (PANW), where he handled a variety incidents and security engineering projects for clients before launching an internal... Read More →

Sunday April 27, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm PDT
AMC Theatre 13 AMC at Metreon

Panel

1:15pm PDT

State of (Absolute) AppSec

Sunday April 27, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm PDT

AMC Theatre 13

Join Seth Law (@sethlaw) and Ken Johnson (@cktricky), co-hosts of the Absolute AppSec Podcast, for a panel discussion on the current state of application and product security for 2025.

Speakers

Seth Law

Ariel Shin

Ariel is an Application Security Manager, leading a team dedicated to eliminating security vulnerabilities by equipping developers with secure training, design practices, and secure defaults. Previously, Ariel managed the Product Security team at Twilio and played a key role in promoting... Read More →

Lakshmi Sudheer

Engineering Manager, AppSec, Netflix

Lakshmi currently leads Netflix’s Application Security team. She has over a decade of security experience and has presented at numerous conferences, including AppSec USA and DEF CON. She’s a strong proponent of “secure-by-default” practices and crowdsourced security, and she’s... Read More →

Ken Johnson

CTO & Co-Founder, DryRun Security

Ken Johnson has been hacking web applications professionally for 14 years and given security training for 11 of those years. Ken is both a breaker and builder and is the CTO & Co-Founder of DryRun Security. Previously, Ken was a Director with GitHub's Product Security Engineering... Read More →

Sunday April 27, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm PDT
AMC Theatre 13 AMC at Metreon

Panel

2:15pm PDT

CISO Series Podcast - LIVE!

Sunday April 27, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm PDT

AMC Theatre 13

Live audience recording of the CISO Series Podcast packed with CISO debate, questions from the audience, "What's Worse?!," and last year's favorite, "What is Dave's Mom Talking About?"

Note: This talk begins with a quick photo with the audience; they will ask if anyone is uncomfortable with it. Overflow will not be photographed.

Speakers

David Spark

Producer, CISO Series

David Spark is the producer of the CISO Series, a media channel of blogs, podcasts, and videos all on the cybersecurity ecosystem. Less than a year old, the CISO Series has hit a nerve in the InfoSec industry as it has acted as a much needed mouthpiece for the dysfunctional yet much... Read More →

Andy Ellis

Alexandra Landegger

Sunday April 27, 2025 2:15pm - 3:00pm PDT
AMC Theatre 13 AMC at Metreon

Panel, Podcast

3:15pm PDT

15 Years of BSidesSF: Behind the Scenes AMA

Sunday April 27, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT

AMC Theatre 13

After 15 years, we have more than few stories to share. Come hear how we've grown (and survived) from a panel of our most experienced BSidesSF organizing veterans.

Speakers

Reed Loden

Reed Loden is an information security expert, researcher, hacker, and developer. With over 15+ years of security experience, he focuses on protecting the products and services of various organizations.Reed has worked to secure companies including Teleport, HackerOne, Lookout Mobile... Read More →

Ricky

Organizer, Security Generalist, BSidesSF

Steve

Steve Sekiguchi, a seasoned hacker, information security expert, researcher, and developer, possesses over four decades of experience in the field. His expertise lies in anticipating emerging trends and providing organizations with the requisite knowledge and awareness to safeguard... Read More →

Tania McClain

Senior Account Executive, GuidePoint Security

Over 25 years experience helping clients and partners in IT & IT Security. My passion lies in connecting teams with the right contacts/experts and/or solutions to make everyone's lives easier.When I'm not working, I like to take my RV out, hang out with friends, and listen to live... Read More →

Meghan Manfre

Sunday April 27, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm PDT
AMC Theatre 13 AMC at Metreon

Panel

4:15pm PDT

Slaying Dragons Together: Multidisciplinary Solutions to Security Issues

Sunday April 27, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm PDT

AMC Theatre 13

Tired of facing the same dragons alone? Join MITRE security and strategy experts to explore how collaborative models and teams can help you tackle your biggest challenges, turning individual lessons learned into repeatable community wins. Build a winning battalion and collective battle plan.

Speakers

Panel

5:15pm PDT

Closing Remarks

Sunday April 27, 2025 5:15pm - 5:45pm PDT

AMC Theatre 13

Closing Remarks

Sunday April 27, 2025 5:15pm - 5:45pm PDT
AMC Theatre 13 AMC at Metreon

BSidesSF 2025

11:30am PDT

Josh Liburdi

Elle McKenna

Sarai Rosenberg

Andrew Kline

1:15pm PDT

Seth Law

Ariel Shin

Lakshmi Sudheer

Ken Johnson

2:15pm PDT

David Spark

Andy Ellis

Alexandra Landegger

3:15pm PDT

Reed Loden

Ricky

Steve

Tania McClain

Meghan Manfre

4:15pm PDT

Stanley Barr

Mary C Yang

Leslie Z Anderson

5:15pm PDT