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Voting for DDD Melbourne is now live

DDD Melbourne is a fantastic developer focused conference. Last year I had the privilege to present my Boring Security Talk to an amazing audience at Melbourne’s Town Hall. This year over 400 people will attend the event at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

DDD Melbourne is a fantastic developer focused conference. Last year I had the privilege to present my Boring Security Talk to an amazing audience at Melbourne’s Town Hall. This year over 400 people will attend the event at the Melbourne Convention Centre.

One of the things that makes all DDD conferences great is that the sessions are selected via an the attendees voting for what they would like to hear. This year there are 155 sessions to choose from, ranging from web development, design, data and security.

If you have purchased a ticket, the next step is to go and vote for your 6 favourite sessions. If you haven’t purchased a ticket yet, what are you waiting for? Go and buy a ticket.

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Content from The Boring Security Talk now available

In September I presented The Boring Security Talk at DDD Melbourne, NDC Sydney and the Melbourne Cloud and Datacenter Meetup.

This talk was an ambitious talk and I was attempting to cover a wide range of topics that are not commonly discussed. I really enjoyed putting the talk together and presenting it to everyone.

In September I presented The Boring Security Talk at DDD Melbourne, NDC Sydney and the Melbourne Cloud and Datacenter Meetup.

This talk was an ambitious talk and I was attempting to cover a wide range of topics that are not commonly discussed. I really enjoyed putting the talk together and presenting it to everyone.

The NDC session was longer than DDD Melbourne, with some additional content around why items like CI/CD, DNS, Email and package security are so important. There are also some more detailed examples and descriptions.

You can find the slides here:

At the end of the talk, I also provided links to three great resources if you wanted more information:

I want to thank everyone who attended and provided feedback to me afterwards. I also want to congratulate the organisers and volunteers who helped run such great events!

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Upcoming Conferences

I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting a new talk, “The Boring Security Talk” at both DDD Melbourne and NDC Sydney in September.

I'm excited to announce that I'll be presenting a new talk, “The Boring Security Talk” at both DDD Melbourne and NDC Sydney in September.

Don’t let the name fool you, the session will cover how you can protect some of the often-overlooked aspects of your organisation’s security! I'll be talking about dependencies, email, DNS and CI/CD. I'm putting together a session that should interest developers, operations and security teams.

Tickets to DDD Melbourne have already sold out, but tickets are still available to NDC Sydney.

I look forward to seeing everyone at DDD and NDC!

I'm speaking at NDC Sydney

I'm speaking at NDC Sydney

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