BSidesSF 2025: Full Schedule

10:15am PDT

Sharing Vulnerabilities

Saturday April 26, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am PDT

In security, we share a lot about vulnerabilities—but rarely our own. In his keynote, Clint Gibler reflects on the personal side of working in this high-pressure field, and what it means to show up as a whole human in this community. Through personal experiences, lessons and stories, Clint invites us to think about what really matters—and how being vulnerable is a strength.

Speakers

Clint Gibler

Head of Security Research, Semgrep

Clint Gibler (@clintgibler) is the Head of Security Research for Semgrep, a startup building modern AppSec tools that security teams and developers love. Previously, Clint was a Research Director at NCC Group, received a PhD in Computer Science from UC Davis, and has spoken at conferences... Read More →

Saturday April 26, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am PDT
AMC IMAX AMC at Metreon

Keynote

10:15am PDT

Fire, Brimstone, and Bad Security Decisions

Sunday April 27, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am PDT

AMC IMAX

An important facet of resilience in cybersecurity has to do with recovery from making wrong decisions, such as a strategic choice in policy, design, architecture, or even procurement. How do you back out of something that seemed like a good idea at the time, but that you now realize is creating problems? And how can we stay curious in the face of being wrong, as well as design security for the future to make redirection easier? This session covers the need to plan for human fallibility – and may itself be wrong …

Speakers

Wendy Nather

Senior Research Initiatives Director, 1Password

Wendy Nather is the Senior Research Initiatives Director at 1Password. She was previously the Director of Advisory CISOs at Duo Security, Research Director at the Retail ISAC, and Research Director of the Information Security Practice at 451 Research. Wendy led IT security for the... Read More →

Sunday April 27, 2025 10:15am - 11:00am PDT
AMC IMAX AMC at Metreon

Keynote